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Cut & Run
by Abigail Roux
ughhhhhhh, where to even begin with this one?
i guess if i had to condense down my main takeaways, they would be: law enforcement in this version of reality are all too stupid to live, including our mcs; the authors really hate women and have potentially only seen latino people on tv; and the narrator has the MOST go on girl give us nothing reading voice i've ever encountered. (i decided to listen to the audio because this book was at the very top of a gr list called 'best mm audiobooks of all time.' ok??)
this did start off promising, i swear. i really, really like ty. he's a great character: the archetypal bisexual dirtbag with a softe heart hidden somewhere underneath. boy, i sure do wish he was in a better book. it took until about 50% of the way in for me to realize that it wasn't just the narration weighing the story down, and that the plot was in fact just bad.
the story is ostensibly a murder mystery/crime procedural, but our mcs spend less than 10% of the book doing any kind of detecting, and even when they do, it's just sort of staring at pictures and going "hmmmmmm" at each other.
i refuse, refuse to believe that in the... 9+ months that the murders were taking place, not a single cop, fed, or m.e. would have recognized what the killings all had in common. there's a reason why the authors chose to leave the most obvious murders for last, because even those of us who hadn't brushed up on our classic american lit would have been screaming at ty and zane to use a single iota of their big brains (i'm told zane is very smart, and ty is an excellent profiler) to put the most obvious 2 and 2 together.
i did write in an update that i'd eat my shoe if who i thought dunnit didn't do it, and i guess i gotta admit i was wrong. this is, unfortunately, not a credit to any sneaky tricks and twists i didn't see coming, but in fact just my own fault for being smarter than the book. it turns out the answer is just that obvious. its exactly who you'd expect, and not ONCE IN THIS STUPID FUCKING STORY do either of our guys stop for a second to consider god. there's nothing i hate worse than a book that doesn't take its own conceit seriously enough to take a second to make its characters seem like real people and not just mindless idiots following a paper-thin plot that's been laid out for them like bread crumbs arghhhhh. nobody behaves like this. not to give cops credit, but even they are not this dumb.
a lot of 'the-other-man-syndrome' happening here also. and so. many. -ly adverbs that it was actively grating.
i had lots of other issues with lots of other things that i'm not even gonna bother to mention. you get the point. this wasn't good, and it only gets 2 stars because ty grady has rights.
i guess if i had to condense down my main takeaways, they would be: law enforcement in this version of reality are all too stupid to live, including our mcs; the authors really hate women and have potentially only seen latino people on tv; and the narrator has the MOST go on girl give us nothing reading voice i've ever encountered. (i decided to listen to the audio because this book was at the very top of a gr list called 'best mm audiobooks of all time.' ok??)
this did start off promising, i swear. i really, really like ty. he's a great character: the archetypal bisexual dirtbag with a softe heart hidden somewhere underneath. boy, i sure do wish he was in a better book. it took until about 50% of the way in for me to realize that it wasn't just the narration weighing the story down, and that the plot was in fact just bad.
the story is ostensibly a murder mystery/crime procedural, but our mcs spend less than 10% of the book doing any kind of detecting, and even when they do, it's just sort of staring at pictures and going "hmmmmmm" at each other.
i refuse, refuse to believe that in the... 9+ months that the murders were taking place, not a single cop, fed, or m.e. would have recognized what the killings all had in common. there's a reason why the authors chose to leave the most obvious murders for last, because even those of us who hadn't brushed up on our classic american lit would have been screaming at ty and zane to use a single iota of their big brains (i'm told zane is very smart, and ty is an excellent profiler) to put the most obvious 2 and 2 together.
i did write in an update that i'd eat my shoe if who i thought dunnit didn't do it, and i guess i gotta admit i was wrong. this is, unfortunately, not a credit to any sneaky tricks and twists i didn't see coming, but in fact just my own fault for being smarter than the book. it turns out the answer is just that obvious. its exactly who you'd expect, and not ONCE IN THIS STUPID FUCKING STORY do either of our guys stop for a second to consider
Spoiler
that there is only one single person who knows exactly where they are and also has access to them and the agency. they spend next to no time considering how it is that the killer knows what he knows about them, and they just shrug at each other when the question comes up. it's very, "we've put no thought into the question and have come up with nothing, guess that's all we can do."Spoiler
anyway, i foolishly thought it was going to be henninger's partner who'd been running off for "lunch dates" because the alternative would be so exceedingly boring and obvious and stupid, and surely he's just the world's most unsubtle red herring? sigh.a lot of 'the-other-man-syndrome' happening here also. and so. many. -ly adverbs that it was actively grating.
i had lots of other issues with lots of other things that i'm not even gonna bother to mention. you get the point. this wasn't good, and it only gets 2 stars because ty grady has rights.