garhardt 's review for:

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
DID NOT FINISH: 42%

It read more like a screenplay than a novel.
Some sections in the middle of chapters broke the flow by shifting focus away from the scene and instead going into excessive detail about what characters were wearing.

While a few of the characters were well written, I didn’t find the plot very engaging, and I wasn’t interested in seeing how things played out. The pacing was too slow, and in the end, it felt more like a love story set in a mob world than a true mob story.