Full disclosure, I only got halfway through the book before stopping. It was a frustrating read for me.

None of the characters are likable, I didn’t care about the murder or who did it, there didn’t seem to be anything here that was particularly original in the storytelling. The author puts you in an undisclosed Eastern Europe country but doesn’t tell you where so you don’t know if it’s real or fictional. It felt like a rehashing of previous, better told stories with formulaic characters. I can almost guarantee I know how it ends without finishing it.

I hate to get so far and quit but I just couldn’t, and I’ve muscled through some absolute stinkers.