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Feels very slow paced and also, Christopher Eccleston hasn't done a great job with the voices of different characters so they all sound pretty much the same. It's very difficult to determine which character is speaking at what moment.

Books like this one and For the Fans make me realize I never wanna read about teenagers falling in love. It's not for me. I'm just turning my nose at every little cliche thing they do or say and constantly going "You don't know anything!! You're just 18!!!"

Why does the character keep shifting from 1st person POV to third person? It was all "I did this I did that" and all of a sudden, he's talking about himself in third person like "Dallas Bradley didn't see him but he recognized his voice" bitch just say I!!

Feels very Heated Rivalry-esque at times, in a good way. I'm enjoying it a lot. The characters have sizzling chemistry so that's definitely a cherry on top as well.

I have started it but it feels a bit too country for me. Plus I can't fucking tell which character is speaking at all. I don't know if it's me not paying attention or the narrator is voicing the characters so similarly. And both the MCs have such pretentious fucking names 🙄

GOD PLEASE BE GOOD PLEASE BE
GOOD PLEASE BE GOOD

Also, I don't like Kyran's narrator.

I don't think this is for me. There is no plot except that they're step brothers who fuck. There's literally nothing else happening for the past few chapters.

What fresh hell is this????

This is exceptionally long. Much longer than it needed to be.

It's just meh so far.

I don't love the narrator's pronunciation of maravilloso. And also the multiple "up to my nips" about everything.

If you love food, wine and travelling then this book is for you. I sadly do not love any of those things.

This book would be a treat for lovers of culinary everything. I, however, am not one. It's going good in some places but the minute the characters start droning on about food and it's descriptions, I lose interest.

Also, Theo is being super annoying. As someone who keeps going on about how far they've come since the breakup (they haven't), they're really not acting like it. DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT THEO!!

Am I crazy or is it kinda choppy? There's too many characters all at once and I can't keep track of who's who. Too many relationships in between them. I keep mixing names and getting confused.
Not off to a good start.

I don't think this is working for me.

Wanted to start something like this after reading a whole bunch of Harry Bosch books and binging all the seasons of Slow Horses.

It's fun. A bit too heavy on the action for me. And too heavy on the Jordan Peterson too like why am I having to encounter him in the books I read too now? Don't love that part at all.

This is surprisingly interesting

We are flying dangerously close to islamophobia and I don't like it.

I almost thought I was hallucinating when heard all the "I did this" "I did that"

All the books so far in this series have been written in third person (the superior choice) and this one is in first person. I do not like reading books that are written in first person -_-

But I'm gonna push through because I have faith in this author.

On we go!

Is this Terry guy for real? He thinks because Harry has the same name as the dead doomsayer painter, he's supposed to be the killer? This book is turninf out to be such a let down. I don't like these characters. And I don't like that this man, who is supposed to be some hotshot FBI guy, is drawing such stupid conclusions with his whole chest. Utterly dumb!

He hasn't slept with the last 3 women that he's met, that's progress!

The narrator has a very unique style of narration where he likes to incorporate gulps and inhales into the narration, as a part of the characters' speech. The idea is nice but I hate the way is sounds. I'm having so much trouble concentrating on the story because of this.

The word right keeps popping up in this book several right so I finally decided to look up how many times it's been used and guess what, it's been used a little over 500 times in this one book. MORE THAN 500 TIMES!

The writing is fucking awful.

Why's he behaving like a horny 14 year old?!

There's a female character in this book whose last name is Roscoe. And every time the narrator says it, Lewis Hamilton's dog pops into my head. I keep picturing the dog instead of a woman. 😭

I am NOT liking this one.

People in recommendations on Reddit were likening it to Michael Connelly's Mickey Haller series but it really isn't. Like really.

I'm gonna stick it out for a little longer and see where it goes.

I CALLED IT IN BOOK 1

I WAS ON POINT ABOUT WHO THE SEVEN OF SPADES WAS SINCE DAY 1 AAAAHHHH YAYYYYY

I'm so over her woe is me shtick.

She's mentioning being a sociopath one too many times. We get it babe, you're not normal. Move on to something else now.