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The Grim Reaper's Lawyer
by Mea Monique
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is one I probably should've stopped listening to. But I fell asleep during the first like 35% of the book, when I woke up I didn't feel the need to rewind and find out what I missed. I got the gist from what I was hearing that all I'd really missed was the main characters bickering and being in the "enemies" part of their story. Since it was slow and I never really got used to the narrators voice, I didn't want to subject myself to more of her than I needed to. Seriously sounded like Alexa narrating this book. At least Alexa shows some emotion (yelling) when the book has all caps. The narrator did this book a disservice. I probably would've been annoyed about the text being overly wordy whether I read the print book or listened to the audiobook. Glad I've read this book now, not impressed, though.
This book had 3 different endings. The last two didn’t really have any foreshadowing throughout the story to give you any inkling about a mystery being afoot (other than the main character mistrusting people who were too nice). The last two “endings” could’ve been their own books. Maybe the author didn’t think there was enough story in the two ideas to get whole books out of them, though. So then I think they could’ve been woven into the larger story a little better. I hope the second book is better at interconnecting the drama and dropping breadcrumbs, instead of treating the drama like a checklist: main characters solved one problem, create a new problem out of nowhere other than the bad guy saying “it’s not over,” create the perfect cliffhanger for a new book very quickly (probably because the book is getting a little long at this point), solve the problem and make the cliffhanger a moot point, drop another cliffhanger on us that seems very uninteresting. Is this an attempt at a love triangle?! Confused….this cliffhanger didn’t make me want to pick up the next book. I don’t care about this new guy, again no foreshadowing.
This book had 3 different endings. The last two didn’t really have any foreshadowing throughout the story to give you any inkling about a mystery being afoot (other than the main character mistrusting people who were too nice). The last two “endings” could’ve been their own books. Maybe the author didn’t think there was enough story in the two ideas to get whole books out of them, though. So then I think they could’ve been woven into the larger story a little better. I hope the second book is better at interconnecting the drama and dropping breadcrumbs, instead of treating the drama like a checklist: main characters solved one problem, create a new problem out of nowhere other than the bad guy saying “it’s not over,” create the perfect cliffhanger for a new book very quickly (probably because the book is getting a little long at this point), solve the problem and make the cliffhanger a moot point, drop another cliffhanger on us that seems very uninteresting. Is this an attempt at a love triangle?! Confused….this cliffhanger didn’t make me want to pick up the next book. I don’t care about this new guy, again no foreshadowing.