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A review by merny88
The Same Breath by Gregory Ashe
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I keep reading Ashe's books because he always hits with the angst, melancholy, darkness, crime and mystery - but I <b>hate</b> a lot of things about his books too.
1 - I am convinced Gregory Ashe can't cook and that's why his characters only eat junk food and trash. At least he attempted to have a character cook in this one, even if it was only to say how bad the food was.
2 - I actually do enjoy hating how long characters in books take to get together because of some other love interest getting in the way, but holy fuck why does he have to make the other love interest so rage inducing and terrible? Is it just me? It can't be. That one little shit, Nico, in Hazard and Somerset made me want to murder. Jadon in Borealis Investigations? Kill me. Ariana in Holloway Holmes. <i>No.</i> And now Ammon. At this point I assume every Ashe series has some extremely annoying love interest just hanging around being godawful but being forgiven at every single point by one of the MC's just so the endgame romance takes three books instead of one.
I hate it so much. <b>So much.</b>
It's painful and means I have to take long breaks in between reading each book in a series because I need to come down from my irritation with whichever idiot kept the horrible love interest.
I would rate this higher if Ammon didn't still exist, but I know he will continue to exist forever solely to spite me.
1 - I am convinced Gregory Ashe can't cook and that's why his characters only eat junk food and trash. At least he attempted to have a character cook in this one, even if it was only to say how bad the food was.
2 - I actually do enjoy hating how long characters in books take to get together because of some other love interest getting in the way, but holy fuck why does he have to make the other love interest so rage inducing and terrible? Is it just me? It can't be. That one little shit, Nico, in Hazard and Somerset made me want to murder. Jadon in Borealis Investigations? Kill me. Ariana in Holloway Holmes. <i>No.</i> And now Ammon. At this point I assume every Ashe series has some extremely annoying love interest just hanging around being godawful but being forgiven at every single point by one of the MC's just so the endgame romance takes three books instead of one.
I hate it so much. <b>So much.</b>
It's painful and means I have to take long breaks in between reading each book in a series because I need to come down from my irritation with whichever idiot kept the horrible love interest.
I would rate this higher if Ammon didn't still exist, but I know he will continue to exist forever solely to spite me.