A review by criticallyromantic
Black Swan Affair by K.L. Kreig

2.0

2 Stars.
Based on the passion of the reviews, I was expecting a lot more from this, but in the end it was... fine? To me, there was something about all of the relationships that felt superficial - like what teenagers think love is, and it never evolved into anything adult as the book went on. In fact, the more I think about it, the more this feels like something I would have thought was amazing in high school, but as an adult I feel like the behavior of the characters, the circumstances that led to this story, and just everyone's feelings and friendships and actions were just completely juvenile and childish. Also...

Spoiler

I was rooting for Kael until he was the kind of person who would take a job in another city without any consideration of the fact that his wife, whom I'm supposed to believe he was MADLY in love with, built a business that she was really proud of from the ground up and the move would require her to leave that business. At that point, my investment in them as a couple sort of went out the window. And like, that particular big fat deal breaker for me was glossed over so completely that it made it worse for me as a reader.

This is a book that's fine until you think about the behavior of the characters - Literally, all of them... - and then it's kind of gross, actually. My opinion of this book has actually gotten distinctly worse over the course of writing this short review even, as I've really thought about the progression of this story.