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Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith
2.0
This book confused me. It was full of woke thoughts mixed with non-woke ones. Is the author just trying to show the dichotomy of life and the people in society or is he just confused and wanted to fuse a bunch of issues together in a book?
The premise of the book is that a gay FBI agent is sent to a small town in Greece to investigate a bunch of fires that are taking place there. This FBI agent, who we are made to try to love in the first chapter itself when he saves a dog from a burning fire. I mean, meh, that felt a little manipulative.
I did however, like the way the author tried to showcase a bunch of societal issues such as the refugee crisis. I thought that was well done where he showed you the two sides of people who react to the crisis - the ones who want to help and the ones who are afraid and think they’re going to pillage their country.
This book promised to be a romance thriller, I don’t know about the romance, but it was a thriller. Though the book did keep me guessing as to who the arsonist is, I was never fully invested in the characters - I thought their arcs were jagged even though the author did try to give us a backstory for most of them.
It still was an okay read and would give this 2 stars. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest review.
The premise of the book is that a gay FBI agent is sent to a small town in Greece to investigate a bunch of fires that are taking place there. This FBI agent, who we are made to try to love in the first chapter itself when he saves a dog from a burning fire. I mean, meh, that felt a little manipulative.
I did however, like the way the author tried to showcase a bunch of societal issues such as the refugee crisis. I thought that was well done where he showed you the two sides of people who react to the crisis - the ones who want to help and the ones who are afraid and think they’re going to pillage their country.
This book promised to be a romance thriller, I don’t know about the romance, but it was a thriller. Though the book did keep me guessing as to who the arsonist is, I was never fully invested in the characters - I thought their arcs were jagged even though the author did try to give us a backstory for most of them.
It still was an okay read and would give this 2 stars. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest review.