This review is based off the advanced reader copy I received.
The book contains open door descriptive, some explicit, scenes.
The book is intended for mature readers over the age of 18.
I found I liked the idea of the story, and plotline.
The book had some interesting elements, and details that are not as common.
Unfortunately, other details seemed all too familiar.
I really liked Roman as the main male character.
He was given a fairly well rounded character.
I was not as impressed with Cassie the lead female character.
She had moments of unexpected immaturity within her actions.
I also struggled with the commonality of the chosen “tropes”.
Unfortunately, this story line with different characters, situations, and backgrounds, has already been written, too many times recently.
My brain already had predicted the timeline of the book.
Before I had even surpassed the half way point.
There are plenty of ways to take a set of somewhat common tropes, and create them into something new.
I personally did not find that in this book.
I also became overwhelmed by the too common grammatical errors.
Some can easily be overlooked as being still in the editing process.
Unfortunately the constant unnecessary, and inappropriate use, of: and, but, or; because to begin sentences. Is not one of those aspects or situations.
The book started off fairly clear.
Then it was like a switch was flipped midway through a chapter, and it was never turned off.
The redundant, and over use of inappropriate sentence structure ruins things for me
As i have previously mentioned before in multiple ways to this author, and others.
This can easily be corrected, and the words would flow more smoothly.
The dialogue would be easier to comprehend.
The words would be clearer, better articulated, and more concise.
This would enable the book to be a more interesting read.
I feel like this book is intended to be read by those over 18.
Only it was composed in a writing style for those in the 18-25 category.
Which have not actually reached their full maturity potential yet.
I will continue to keep an eye on this author, and hope they will continue to change their writing style for the better.
I also hope that a better editing job is done to separate the voices, and dialogue within the story in the future.
Some readers may not agree with my assessment.
Yet, I received my English education over 35 years ago.
I started editing books over 25 years ago, and was taught to follow strict guidelines for ‘’publication”.
Thus, enabling easy comprehension, and readability across all platforms.
While enabling easier translation if the reader speaks a different language or they need the book transcribed.
This book could never be transcribed into braille in its current format, and writing style. It would not make sense in the language.
I received a free advanced reader copy of this book.
I am voluntarily leaving my honest albeit critical review.