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A review by imaginary_sauropod
Red Gambit by Luke R. Mitchell
Did not finish book. Stopped at 54%.
Note: I received a copy of this book through a giveaway on StoryGraph.
Could not get invested in the story. I tried really hard, but the characters do not portray any real depth, the “romance” was arbitrarily started off on the wrong foot (reminiscent of toxic 80’s yelling and arguing means love when it doesn’t even make sense with the plot), the lack of tension in the plot due to continual success, and I just don’t care. The world-building didn’t seem intriguing when it feels like it should, the FMC seemed like she was going to be sympathetic (when the MMC was not at all) but then ended up just as shallow as the MMC. I was hoping the plot would carry it at least, but found I couldn’t care once the action scene was over.
Could not get invested in the story. I tried really hard, but the characters do not portray any real depth, the “romance” was arbitrarily started off on the wrong foot (reminiscent of toxic 80’s yelling and arguing means love when it doesn’t even make sense with the plot), the lack of tension in the plot due to continual success, and I just don’t care. The world-building didn’t seem intriguing when it feels like it should, the FMC seemed like she was going to be sympathetic (when the MMC was not at all) but then ended up just as shallow as the MMC. I was hoping the plot would carry it at least, but found I couldn’t care once the action scene was over.