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charliauthor's Reviews (531)
Another case featuring my favourite insomniac detective, Robert Hunter and its a good one!
Written during the Pandemic when the author was going through a rather difficult time along with the rest of us, this novel takes some rather dark turns when dealing with love and loss. I felt a lot of the pain through this book in between the pages when i was being shocked by the absolutely shocking crimes!
While the ending felt a little far fetched considering the nature of the killer, i did like discovering their motivations because it felt so real in regard to today's social climate. Despite the Ultra Violent Crimes from which Hunter's division gets its name, this was a very emotional Hunter case which was unexpected going in.
Written during the Pandemic when the author was going through a rather difficult time along with the rest of us, this novel takes some rather dark turns when dealing with love and loss. I felt a lot of the pain through this book in between the pages when i was being shocked by the absolutely shocking crimes!
While the ending felt a little far fetched considering the nature of the killer, i did like discovering their motivations because it felt so real in regard to today's social climate. Despite the Ultra Violent Crimes from which Hunter's division gets its name, this was a very emotional Hunter case which was unexpected going in.
This was such a weird one for me. While I really loved the richness and complexity of the first two books, this third instalment seemed to go that little bit too far and just felt very convoluted and dragged out.
I love the cast and the intensity of the world but by the fiftieth time Dara didnt fight back against his virtual and literal enslavement, or Ali didnt confess his love for Nahri or Manizeh kept being one step ahead of them, it just felt really drawn out. There were too many questions that took too long to be answered and even by the end, there were still loose threads which really annoyed me lol
I think my biggest issue now that its over is that after all of that politics and fighting and different sects, the romance wasnt wrapped up in any significant way. I know thats not what everything is about but i love the romance part of books and there was no romantic HEA and that really annoyed me too!
I dont know, i think i left reading the third book too long after the second because the magic that enthralled me at the start didnt last by the end.
I love the cast and the intensity of the world but by the fiftieth time Dara didnt fight back against his virtual and literal enslavement, or Ali didnt confess his love for Nahri or Manizeh kept being one step ahead of them, it just felt really drawn out. There were too many questions that took too long to be answered and even by the end, there were still loose threads which really annoyed me lol
I think my biggest issue now that its over is that after all of that politics and fighting and different sects, the romance wasnt wrapped up in any significant way. I know thats not what everything is about but i love the romance part of books and there was no romantic HEA and that really annoyed me too!
I dont know, i think i left reading the third book too long after the second because the magic that enthralled me at the start didnt last by the end.
Hmmm. So what started out as a full blown, cavity inducing contemporary rom-com masquerading as Fantasy Romance, turned into a bit of a drudge fest by the halfway mark.
I was super invested in the love letter exchange portion of the book but the reveal, the enemies to lovers vibe was over pretty quickly which let it down for me.
Mercy is the office manager at her father’s undertaking business and Hart is like a zombie fighter type person who drops bodies off from the fantastical world they seem to live in. They hate each other for a stupid reason but shes really nice and homely and hes a total simp so you allow it cause its so sweet.
Some confusing world building thrown in about Old and New Gods and a world obsessed with water for some reason, and you’ve got a fantasy/contemporary that while rather original was just a bit weird. Why are the cars called ducks? Why the water theme? Why the horses called equimares? Why sea polo as the main sport? Why the death theme?! Why any of it outside of the love letters??
It was a sweet enough read but i did find myself skimming much of the end cause i didnt really care or understand about anything else but the romance element of the book. The rest of plot just felt like filler in an attempt to give it purpose so it definitely could have been about 200 pages shorter.
A decent steamy scene/mention but overall i wasnt blow away by it in any way but wouldnt deter anyone from reading it.
I was super invested in the love letter exchange portion of the book but the reveal, the enemies to lovers vibe was over pretty quickly which let it down for me.
Mercy is the office manager at her father’s undertaking business and Hart is like a zombie fighter type person who drops bodies off from the fantastical world they seem to live in. They hate each other for a stupid reason but shes really nice and homely and hes a total simp so you allow it cause its so sweet.
Some confusing world building thrown in about Old and New Gods and a world obsessed with water for some reason, and you’ve got a fantasy/contemporary that while rather original was just a bit weird. Why are the cars called ducks? Why the water theme? Why the horses called equimares? Why sea polo as the main sport? Why the death theme?! Why any of it outside of the love letters??
It was a sweet enough read but i did find myself skimming much of the end cause i didnt really care or understand about anything else but the romance element of the book. The rest of plot just felt like filler in an attempt to give it purpose so it definitely could have been about 200 pages shorter.
A decent steamy scene/mention but overall i wasnt blow away by it in any way but wouldnt deter anyone from reading it.
The age old narrative of a young African girl going against the grain of her traditional, high achieving and expectant family in order to find herself and love.
While i liked the story well enough, Angie was too self deprecating and self sabotaging for me to really get behind her feelings. The love interest Ricky, while supremely hot and loved the interracial relationship, he was almost too nice and too clueless for his personality to be a real person. I felt as though he was written simply for this book and not a real depiction of a nice guy but a made up nice guy.
The struggling but nice artist was too much of a trope against the stick in the mud pre med student that i found myself rolling my eyes a few times.
What really irked me was the really frequent descriptions of medical school practices that i cared nothing about. It was really quite boring which was upsetting cause i wanted to skip those parts. The romance was minimal but was still overshadowed by the random interjections of side quests about her friends and exams so it was dragged
Overall it was a cute enough read but didnt leave me with the super cutesy feels afterward.
While i liked the story well enough, Angie was too self deprecating and self sabotaging for me to really get behind her feelings. The love interest Ricky, while supremely hot and loved the interracial relationship, he was almost too nice and too clueless for his personality to be a real person. I felt as though he was written simply for this book and not a real depiction of a nice guy but a made up nice guy.
The struggling but nice artist was too much of a trope against the stick in the mud pre med student that i found myself rolling my eyes a few times.
What really irked me was the really frequent descriptions of medical school practices that i cared nothing about. It was really quite boring which was upsetting cause i wanted to skip those parts. The romance was minimal but was still overshadowed by the random interjections of side quests about her friends and exams so it was dragged
Overall it was a cute enough read but didnt leave me with the super cutesy feels afterward.