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3.5 ✨
2.75 🌶️
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Re-view 
I thought this book was going to be cringe upon rereading (10 years later). The spice wasn't all that spicy and it was more fast pounding (which isn't a lot of fun for one partner). But, I'm not here to talk about the spice. 

Listening this time around, things sounded stilted and dated. The dating didn't bother me but things just felt off. Then I thought, what if I Invision this more as a film noir, and it clicked. The way some of the characters talked to each other have that snappy detective style. The way the narrator delivered back and forth dialogue was reminiscent of those films. After I had this mindset, I started to enjoy the book a bit more. 

I remember not enjoying the lessers POV when I read it and I sure as hell didn't like it this time around either. There is something about developing the bad guys the way that these books do that I just don't like. I wanted to know the other characters more. 

I know this is the launching pad of the series and the two main characters suffer due to world building and future character development. I just wish we had more time with these two MCs. 

This is not a 5 star read by my standards today.