I unfortunately ended up DNFing this at about 15%. There was a couple of reason for this, one being the format (PDF on the netgalley app with the abhorrently large margins), the rest were book related. I read the prologue and wanted to give up because it was really clunky but I kept going. The rest of it flowed a lot better but the plot and characters kind of lost me. One thing that made me give up was the fact that the MMC (male main character) was repeatedly said to be a “low rated F2 driver”. For those who don’t know, F2 is the feeder series to F1 but most F2 drivers won’t make it unless they have team connections, money, a really great F2 season or a combination of all three. So basically, the MMC isn’t going to be great and is repeatedly called kind of useless. I don’t want to read about a highly qualified woman with a guy whos jsut kind of there. I mean I know its a book and he’ll probably end up being great but I just couldn’t. Then theres all the American/British stuff. This was written by an American with a bit of awareness of american stereotypes but it still felt king of uncanny valley (I don’t know if thats the best way to describe it but I can’t think of anything else).

Anyway, wasn’t working for me for a number of reasons. Maybe in a different format I would have read longer and fallen in love with it but as an avid DNFer I think its unlikely. If a book doesn’t start good I don’t think it’ll get better.