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A review by evaxo
A Lethal Love by Max Walker
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.0
Wasn't too keen on this, but it also wasn't terrible. Pretty similar to the first book, although I was hoping it'd have been better. The romance was good.
Positives:
The MCs make a cute couple, their romance was lovely, sweet and enjoyable to read about.
Negatives:
Time lapse of convenience, overuse of same phrases/writing style, uninspiring detective work.
To elaborate:
1. An alcoholic of several years, recovers 100% in just 3 weeks, with no descriptions of this, and no relapse, no struggles. If the author didn't wish the journey to sobriety to be included, they should have made Griffins nights of 'over-indulgence' sporadic instances.
2. When the romance reached a certain stage, we got another '3 weeks later'. All to say they're even more in love now, but all the other plot points stayed still. No detective work was done because the PI was waiting for one of his suspects to return a phone call? For 21 days?
3. The above is just one of the examples of how much of an amateur the detective was written to look. All he does is constantly repeat he's almost solved it, he just needs to figure out who did it. Without actually doing much at all. The case was very much a filler to the romance, even when robbing banks was thrown in it didn't get exciting, I really didn't care who the murderer was.
4. As with the investigation scenes, the spicy scenes and lovey-dove ones had repetition of the authors favourite words and phrases, it got too much. The talking, was too much - instead of showing us, the characters just kept saying things out loud. This is one of the weakness of the writing in this story for me.
5. I also found it disappointing when dinner with dad was planned for the weekend,but then completely forgotten about, just dropped from the story...
6. And lastly, I thought it was very disrespectful how they made one of the MCs have a cultural name, yet his partner not call him by said given name? Alejandro is not difficult, but all the way to the end, Griffin called him 'Alex'. Surely if you love someone, you'd make the effort to use their actual name, not an americanised nickname...
Positives:
The MCs make a cute couple, their romance was lovely, sweet and enjoyable to read about.
Negatives:
Time lapse of convenience, overuse of same phrases/writing style, uninspiring detective work.
To elaborate:
1. An alcoholic of several years, recovers 100% in just 3 weeks, with no descriptions of this, and no relapse, no struggles. If the author didn't wish the journey to sobriety to be included, they should have made Griffins nights of 'over-indulgence' sporadic instances.
2. When the romance reached a certain stage, we got another '3 weeks later'. All to say they're even more in love now, but all the other plot points stayed still. No detective work was done because the PI was waiting for one of his suspects to return a phone call? For 21 days?
3. The above is just one of the examples of how much of an amateur the detective was written to look. All he does is constantly repeat he's almost solved it, he just needs to figure out who did it. Without actually doing much at all. The case was very much a filler to the romance, even when robbing banks was thrown in it didn't get exciting, I really didn't care who the murderer was.
4. As with the investigation scenes, the spicy scenes and lovey-dove ones had repetition of the authors favourite words and phrases, it got too much. The talking, was too much - instead of showing us, the characters just kept saying things out loud. This is one of the weakness of the writing in this story for me.
5. I also found it disappointing when dinner with dad was planned for the weekend,but then completely forgotten about, just dropped from the story...
6. And lastly, I thought it was very disrespectful how they made one of the MCs have a cultural name, yet his partner not call him by said given name? Alejandro is not difficult, but all the way to the end, Griffin called him 'Alex'. Surely if you love someone, you'd make the effort to use their actual name, not an americanised nickname...