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You Can Run
by Rebecca Zanetti
I'm usually pretty trash for Rebecca Zanetti books -- her Sin Brothers series is one of my faves -- but this was really a disappointment.
Laurel Snow is a rising star at the FBI, a fiercely intelligent criminal profiler. She's sent to her hometown in Washington State to help investigate a serial killer in the area, where she meets Fish & Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers. Laurel and Huck are hunting a killer, and being hunted in return.
I think this is a really well-paced mystery, with enough red herrings to keep you guessing and a villain who's a logical surprise. But there were too many irritating things about this book for me to actually like it. Initially I really was enjoying the read -- Zanetti loves an enormous/broody/enormously broody hero, and wouldn't you know, I love that too. But I'm afraid she's leaning too far into the extreme here. Huck's name is just hot man word salad (Huck Delta Rivers?? Come on.), and we get almost no backstory on him. This is not a romance novel, and clearly intended to be a longer series, but I could have done with a little more information on him.
Laurel is probably meant to be read as a hot lady Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds, and she starts out like this. But she quickly devolves into kind of a Mary Sue and a flat representation of what I imagine is meant to be a woman on the autism spectrum, which is frustrating. Huck is intrigued by her because ""she's not like other girls,"" citing at one point how he likes that she's not high maintenance. It's 2022, can we not describe women by how much effort they put into things like their physical appearance? We also get so many unnecessary details about her: I think her every outfit is described, and it's just not interesting.
For me, the final nail in the coffin here comes at 88%, and that's when one character calls another a f*ckt*rd. Folks, the campaign to end the use of the word r*tard has been in full swing since I was in high school many years ago, and yes, using the end of it here still counts. I'm reading this ARC pretty late in the game, and I really hope another reviewer flagged it and it's not in the final copy, because I cannot believe an editor let it go out as an ARC with it.
Thank you Zebra & NetGalley for the ARC!
CW:rape, murder, gun violence, blood, gore, kidnapping, panic attacks
Laurel Snow is a rising star at the FBI, a fiercely intelligent criminal profiler. She's sent to her hometown in Washington State to help investigate a serial killer in the area, where she meets Fish & Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers. Laurel and Huck are hunting a killer, and being hunted in return.
I think this is a really well-paced mystery, with enough red herrings to keep you guessing and a villain who's a logical surprise. But there were too many irritating things about this book for me to actually like it. Initially I really was enjoying the read -- Zanetti loves an enormous/broody/enormously broody hero, and wouldn't you know, I love that too. But I'm afraid she's leaning too far into the extreme here. Huck's name is just hot man word salad (Huck Delta Rivers?? Come on.), and we get almost no backstory on him. This is not a romance novel, and clearly intended to be a longer series, but I could have done with a little more information on him.
Laurel is probably meant to be read as a hot lady Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds, and she starts out like this. But she quickly devolves into kind of a Mary Sue and a flat representation of what I imagine is meant to be a woman on the autism spectrum, which is frustrating. Huck is intrigued by her because ""she's not like other girls,"" citing at one point how he likes that she's not high maintenance. It's 2022, can we not describe women by how much effort they put into things like their physical appearance? We also get so many unnecessary details about her: I think her every outfit is described, and it's just not interesting.
For me, the final nail in the coffin here comes at 88%, and that's when one character calls another a f*ckt*rd. Folks, the campaign to end the use of the word r*tard has been in full swing since I was in high school many years ago, and yes, using the end of it here still counts. I'm reading this ARC pretty late in the game, and I really hope another reviewer flagged it and it's not in the final copy, because I cannot believe an editor let it go out as an ARC with it.
Thank you Zebra & NetGalley for the ARC!
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