Teddy Carr’s Reviews > Two Good Men > Status Update

Reading this out of pure spite now. I’m not even annotating anymore. I need to talk to the writer, the editors, the fucking reviewers calling this “masterful” and “compelling.” The premise is SO GOOD but the book falls so short of any potential it had. It could be fixed too, by a good editor. But did so, and now it’s just the author’s romantic fantasies instead of a substantive piece of literature.

(TW: SA) (also spoilers but I would not recommend this book ever so do with that what you will) This will not be my only update tonight but GOD this book sucks. A quarter through and it’s already defeated the premise of “two good men;” I hate Steve for pursuing the killer of a pedophile that’s raped 54 boys. I’m sorry, there’s no way in hell I’d do anything but turn a blind eye to that. What the fuck!!!

I was gonna read so much more tonight. I was. But then I learned that the romance in this book includes a TWENTY EIGHT YEAR AGE GAP. No I’m not exaggerating; I reread that sentence over and over again. Yes I’m certain they’re setting up a romance here; it’s explicitly stated as such in the blurb. I need to set this down and reconsider ever picking it up again. TWENTY EIGHT YEARS! He is LITERALLY twice her age

I was gonna read so much more tonight. I was. But then I learned that the romance in this book includes a TWENTY EIGHT YEAR AGE GAP. No I’m not exaggerating; I reread that sentence over and over again. Yes I’m certain they’re setting up a romance here; it’s explicitly stated as such in the blurb. I need to set this down and reconsider ever picking it up again. TWENTY EIGHT YEARS! He is LITERALLY twice her age

Merry Christmas and a happy morally-gray-vigilante-novel :)