This is … often good writing in chunks. And then it repeats and repeats and repeats and... The author is obsessed with white and white and white and repetition over and again. This novel could have been …oof… probably 8h shorter (what is that like? 300 pages too long?) it was a BIT OF A long haul to get to the end. The majority of the middle narrative was action and action and repeated action (and a lot of bedroom action) that all didn’t accomplish much until round about the 80% mark.

The ending was superb. Grand wee twist. Just took too long to get there imo.

Won’t be reading the third for a while.
Exhausted after this one.

But I’ll come back to it…