Status Updates From High Stakes (Syndicate Mast...

Another sex scene, tons of narrative and a flashback. Plus, we’ve been told what she thinks is happening in the racing industry, so no big reveal.

I’m perplexed by the 4- and 5-star reviews. The prologue is basically a sex scene driven by poorly-written traumatic events we zip through. Then the first chapter tells you the FMC is at a party for a paragraph, then slips into reminiscent narrative. The next page is three weeks later. What?!

So far, there’s nothing resembling dialogue or a scene (except the sex scene). How long to torture myself before DNF?