Not bad for a freebie

However its predictability and ‘rote-ness’ made it boring in the last half. I called the big bad/twist at the 20% point and just waited to be right (I was 😏). 
Overall this wasn’t bad. It was a fairly well crafted Heist, in the vein of National Treasure, and obviously an indie work, as it needed better beta reading for continuity and general plot editing. If you don’t read a lot of these, this one isn’t bad. If you’ve read a lot of suspense romance, this one will be less than exciting. The author followed an obvious formula but made the characters likeable and I enjoyed it enough that, if I can find the rest of the series at the library, I may continue. 

But I would have loved if this was more original, had more emotion and delved deeper into the two main characters. As it is it’s a pretty ok book, but I could easily tell how the story was going to go and the ending was a big disappointment so it does not make to four stars.

the villain’s motivation for faking his own death was because he didn’t get along with Scarlett’s mother (he was her fiancé), what in the actual fuck?

 


Book one in my goal to prioritize Canadian authors for 2025 🇨🇦.