I wish I DNF'd this
I had several problems with this book, unfortunately. It needed some editing. The characters weren't very memorable or distinct. Most (if not all) characters were one-dimensional with no secondary motivations. The ending was anticlimactic. I'm going to rant more and talk about possible spoilers below, so be warned.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!
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There was too much being told to us rather than shown via dialogue or actions, so I never really felt connected to the characters. I felt like in order to know and remember each character, especially the brothers, I had to go through a checklist of facts in my head: job- programmer, farmer, bartender, news reporter? Personality type- Dominant, laid back, aggressive, sensitive? I couldn't identify them otherwise, not by what they said nor by their actions.
Each character is basically reduced to a one-dimensional being based off their primary descriptive term. Maddy is a loner and hacker, thus even mention of two siblings is casually brushed off with no emotion from the MC, while more time is spent describing her paying computer projects. The villain is an illegal immigrant who came to the US from Libya via Saudi Arabia and Mexico apparently for the sole purpose of gunning down random innocent affluent Americans hanging out in their suburban front yards. Also mentioned is how another illegal immigrant raped and murded one of the brothers' high school girlfriends. It was uncomfortably one-dimensional.
The men in this reverse harem are identical quadruplets, which is fine, but the MC keeps pointing out how identical they are and how the MC doesn't know who she is talking to for about 80% of the book, which was mildly uncomfortable. It was made more uncomfortable when the brothers talk about how they shared a girlfriend before, but she didn't know they were sharing her (each quadruplet pretended to be one person and they'd take turns going on dates with her.) That's kind of squicky to me.
The police were remarkably welcoming of the vigilante help the hackers gave them and basically accepted anything given to them by the brothers or Maddy as truth. No questions were asked as to where or how this information was obtained. This was waved away by the explanation that the cops knew the brothers and had asked for help from them before. Still too hard for me to suspend my disbelief.
Many times the characters did something really unsafe while saying it was safe. "We're going to go join the police in looking through buildings for the villain's lair, where he may possibly be since we have no idea where he is at any given time, and where he may keep an unknown supply of automatic weapons. But don't worry! We're going in pairs just to look, because that's safe." Maddy even mentions at one point how she didn't do these things before meeting the brothers because she liked to be safe. She and the brother she was with then laugh it off as they go into another building. The addition of one man, who, while he may or may not be armed, has presumably zero experience in any sort of martial arts or combat training, does not make a girl safer. I was actually angry that the characters kept saying how safe it was for them to look for the lair, even after the villain followed them to the MC's house and fired a gun through the window while she was inside.
I honestly don't know why I finished this. I wanted to give up on the book around the halfway point but I kept telling myself I wasn't giving it enough of a chance. I told myself to keep reading until the end, and now I'm somewhat regretful of the time I spent reading this book. I liked the idea behind the story and the fact that it was available for Kindle Unlimited, but honestly? I can't recommend this at all.