397 pages
English language
Published Jan. 14, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
This was a hate read. Not sure why I feel a need to subject myself to writing that hasn’t improved from the first book in this series, characters that are still loathsome, and a story that doesn’t make up for any of these shortcomings. I do have a completionist tendency which might be getting more severe over the years. Lord help me, I’ve already decided to read the next (please-let-it-be-the-last) book in the series.
DNF'd at 33%. The characters in this book are miserable, broken human beings. If you were at a dinner party with them, you'd be making your excuses to leave before the appetizers. They are not sympathetic, they are insufferable. Despite hating all of them at the end of the last book, I picked up this book because I was curious where the plot would go. A third of the way through the book, I was describing it to a friend and I realized that it wasn't getting better and life is too short for books you don't love.
