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rating: ★ - this shit SUCKS. i'd give it 0 stars if i could
why i chose this book: thought the premise was kinda interesting- i love detective x killer romances so this seemed like a decent pick
things i liked:
• the smut was okay but nothing to really write home about
• aside from that: literally nothing! im so sorry this is so bad on every count that i cant even say anything nice about it, which i try to do with every book i review.
things i disliked:
• the ONLYYYY nickname the two mmcs have for alex (fmc) is "little darling", and when i tell you this gets repetitive and obnoxious fast, i mean FAST. why is her last name even darling. how common is that anyway
• there are so many throwaway side characters that it's hard to keep track of them, AND THEN YOU FUCKING FORGET WHO THEY ARE so when they come up next you're like i have never seen this man before in my whole life
• and then some of them were introduced for specific reasons and their plot thread just got left there! what the fuck!
• TERRIBLE, GODAWFUL DIALOGUE. seriously nobody human actually talks like this. this is like asking a robot what a human would say in a conversation and then putting in its answers verbatim. it's stiff, it's awkward, and yes, it DOES get repetitive like everything else in this book.
• alex has no personality!
• also, as an add-on to that last point: alex supposedly has an "unsettling affinity for murderers and their victims" but this is literally never shown anywhere. we're just supposed to take her word for it. i mean, she fucking fails at catching these guys at EVERY TURN how on god's green earth does she have a knack for this
• show dont tell violations are EVERYWHERE
• the plot is so goddamn repetitive. she wakes up. she showers. she goes to the drive-through and gets a fucking bagel and coffee and this happens SO MANY TIMES that i wanted to die. and then she goes to work and interviews people and whatever but it never EVER adds anything to the plot and on the forensic side everything is stupid and pointless. god i hate how the author clearly did not do any research for this book. idc how much she says she did, she Did Not do enough
• i do not know how
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"tristan" translates to "truth"• YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THEY
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GAVE THEIR TWIN DAUGHTERS NAMES STARTING WITH H AND S SO WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER FUCKASS GIMMICK ABOUT THEIR NAMES MEANING SOMETHING ELSE ("hide and seek" in this context)???• the whole thing is bullshit. such bullshit. i almost didn't finish it, and i hate not finishing books. but this shit was off the wall awful.
was it worth the money?: absolutely goddamn not. no. never again. spare yourselves the smut is NOT hot enough to warrant this kind of hatecrime on the brain.