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A review by claire_loves_books
Cut & Run by Abigail Roux, Madeleine Urban
3.0
It was obvious from fairly early on who the bad guy was .
The characters were a bit too determinedly snarky to be believable and there were other aspects that I really couldn't believe - their determination to avoid hospital seemed stupid and unprofessional There were just a lot of occasions that I was like "well that was stupid" and I doubted that experienced FBI officers would have done it.
I liked the romance, and the sex scenes (While somewhat out of my comfort zone) were good but anal (or any type of sex) isn't supposed to hurt/leave physical damage (unless that's what you're into- but that's a whole nother thing and these characters weren't).
The writing was okay but it did get confusing (I was never sure which of them 'he' referred to) and the POV switches were confusing.
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and the murderer recreating scenes from a book/film/history is a pretty commonly used scenario so while I hadn't read poe but I knew from fairly early on he was probably copycatting other murders. Surely someone else with some connection to the murders had read poe enough to recognise one of the murders and even if they had't they could have at least chucked a few searches into google and see what sort of thing it flagged up.The characters were a bit too determinedly snarky to be believable and there were other aspects that I really couldn't believe - their determination to avoid hospital seemed stupid and unprofessional
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why wouldn't zane accept a local anaesthetic, those jabs are amazing and as we are repeatedly told non-addictive. And why would anyone take that many pain meds? more tablets doesn't equal better it equals overdose- if you want to be super functional you might take a bit more than recommended but not enough to kill you. Zane knows enough about drugs to know it was stupid so why did he do it? It just felt like an easy way for the author to put some extra conflict into the story, rather than what Zane would actually have done.I liked the romance, and the sex scenes (While somewhat out of my comfort zone) were good but anal (or any type of sex) isn't supposed to hurt/leave physical damage (unless that's what you're into- but that's a whole nother thing and these characters weren't).
The writing was okay but it did get confusing (I was never sure which of them 'he' referred to) and the POV switches were confusing.