Christine Dougherty

Interesting, but weak at the end

It starts well and has a good developing plot. The characters are consistent. Everything is slightly ludicrous, but it fits together nicely. But I wasn't really enjoying the book to a high level.

Then it happens. The book takes a sudden left turn that threw me out of the plot. Turning what we know about a main character on its head, promoting a secondary character and giving her abilities inconsistent with her previous portrayal. Doing it in such a way I no longer care about those characters.

I have too many other books to read to bother finishing. It's not bad or terrible, I just don't care enough to finish.

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The bubble head from sales was trained as an assassin? That little curveball dumped me right out. I get that it was plausible and supported by further information, but...it was so over the top. And no one else has talked much about past jobs except this super deadly assassin all of a sudden. And there was a physical relationship between Candy and Carl? Up to this point it was reading as unrequited. He was too damaged for a relationship, but now he wasn't?

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