Detective

by Jordan Deon

Lennox Petrenko is a Jersey girl with big-city dreams. She just graduated from the NYPD Academy and is ready to take on New York City with her best friend and roommate, Maia. Shortly after they start their careers, things take a turn for the worse. Maia gets caught up with the wrong crowd...or does she?

428 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2024

Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick, fun read!

[Jazmin Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, very detailed charters and places, which is always nice! Worth the read to me!

[Emy Nogle · Rating 2 out of 5]

i’m not sure why this book has any good ratings. it’s full of typos, dialogue errors, grammatical errors. the main character is 22 and acts 7 with her brother; their whole relationship is childish and not realistic to real people their age. the text is basic and almost feels dumbed down, with simple wording as well as corny dialogue that people would never say out loud. descriptions are slapped clumsily into paragraphs instead of flowing with the story and have a childish wattpad feel to them. the author shifts between current and past tense and uses slashes and “etc.” and abbreviations after spelling out something in sentences. it’s filled with sexist tropes of men harassing any woman they come across, the main character’s little brother constantly harassing women, and the mom pressuring her to have a kid. she also seems to have a strange obsession with well endowed blonde women. plus the “i’m such a girl” “you’re such a girl” comments. all tired fucking tropes that don’t add anything to the story. scenes are cringey and again corny, like her panicking repeatedly and dramatically over being hired or her parents assuming she’s pregnant and threatening to kill the father even though she’s single and they knew she was waiting to hear if she got hired that day. i’m guessing the author is a misogynist or something?? she randomly lapses into deep panic attack level fear and then is just fine within literally a few sentences. then her partner goes on a rant about how great she is as a person when we’ve seen nothing but panic and her attacking her own reflection… written by a 12 year old misogynist??? her relationship with Steele is built on literally no bonding and lust. all the characters are weird, immature, flirty, and unprofessional with one another. the moments of “spice” are uncomfortable, tense, inappropriate and unrealistic moments where he randomly touches her inappropriately at WORK. or her touching his genitals IN PUBLIC?? foster families adopting three girls at once, Petrenko running into Steele so hard she’s almost knocked out, getting tipsy off of a single small sip of wine - this book is just so unrealistic and childish lmfao. it took 200 pages for a plot and 300 to make me actually want to continue reading. The author also goes between the point of view that Lennox isn’t sure Steele likes her and moments of certainty and that she’s in love. they don’t disclose their relationship in a job where it would be important to. the author also sometimes italicizes thoughts and, within the same sentence, doesn’t. the last sentence ends with… dialogue? and the dialogue of choice is inconclusive and awkward. the sting was the only good part of the book and even that was mid af.