...i don't even know where to begin.
*taps shift key in thoughtful irritation*
ok, so, here's the thing:
this could have been amazing.
the premise and set-up alone were so rich with possibility i was nibbled to death by plot bunnies for the first three chapters.
but it's... it's more like an outline than a proper story.
so carelessly rushed it pissed me off. this should have been amazeballs, dammit.
but it wasn't. there's zero natural development in it at all. and it's dialogue-dominated, so basically it's people explaining the plot to you instead of the plot being the skeleton of the story.
there are baffling incontinuities, like how they fuck raw for the first assignation, but insist on a rubber for the second (and final) one, as if the first time never happened.
i mean, i'm all for sex that reflects reality rather than a public health advisory, but shit. maybe keep it consistent, yuh?
and both sex scenes were maybe 50 words long, max.
the romance was almost entirely unsatisfying for the same reason: we are told they are in love without ever being given a chance to see why.
to say nothing of the spoilery dafuqery i can't even begin to ever, even, etc.
really disappointing.
take your time, author. this setting and these characters should have eaten-up hundreds of pages of delicious dynamism.
instead, this book is the cliff's notes version of itself.
the synopsis of a promisingly original PNR that does not, in fact, exist.