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A review by acesarrows
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban, Abigail Roux
2.0
I picked this up because book 6 in this series won DABWAHA this year, and seemed to have some pretty serious fans.
I did not enjoy this book.
The mystery itself was second rate (you guys work for the FBI and it took you that long to figure it out?)
The book was about 300 pages too long, the main characters were caricatures of the kind of characters they were supposed to be, the dialogue was terrible and the POV switching between both of the main characters was too fast and abrupt.
I can see why this is a popular series, though. Ty and Zane are both likeable enough characters, and I think I see where the authors were trying to go with this.
However, it felt more like bad fan-fic at times, and the sex and tension read as a fetishized version of what it should be. The conversations the two of them had bordered, at times, on the utterly ridiculous and unbelievable. Again - much of this read as a kind fetishized stylizing of male romance and sex.
Generally, I can see why people like this book (and the series). It reminded me a bit of a half-built house. It has good bones, but needs a hell of a lot of work before someone can move in.
That's what Cut and Run is like. There is a good story, good dynamic and good characters under all the rest of it, however, it failed on execution.
I did not enjoy this book.
The mystery itself was second rate (you guys work for the FBI and it took you that long to figure it out?)
The book was about 300 pages too long, the main characters were caricatures of the kind of characters they were supposed to be, the dialogue was terrible and the POV switching between both of the main characters was too fast and abrupt.
I can see why this is a popular series, though. Ty and Zane are both likeable enough characters, and I think I see where the authors were trying to go with this.
However, it felt more like bad fan-fic at times, and the sex and tension read as a fetishized version of what it should be. The conversations the two of them had bordered, at times, on the utterly ridiculous and unbelievable. Again - much of this read as a kind fetishized stylizing of male romance and sex.
Generally, I can see why people like this book (and the series). It reminded me a bit of a half-built house. It has good bones, but needs a hell of a lot of work before someone can move in.
That's what Cut and Run is like. There is a good story, good dynamic and good characters under all the rest of it, however, it failed on execution.