Listened to this on Audible. The only good component was the narrator, I’d give Austin Jay 5 stars.
Every character is either a doormat or a complete jerk. There is so much illegal activity (kidnapping, fighting, all kinds of illegal work practices) that is never fully addressed. I don’t know how Shawn (the worst personality in a sea of horrible personalities) has managed to keep his job, he has to have numerous HR complaints filed against him. If I had any of these people in my life, I would be cutting them and their toxic crap out of my existence.
I don’t think any research was done in preparation for these books. For example, in the first book one of the main characters, Mark, had polio as a child. Mark is in his 20’s. There hasn’t been a case of polio in the US in over 30 years. That took me a 5 second Google to research.
I continued listening because I kept thinking that it couldn’t get any worse, but the author kept surprising me.