“good for me, this guy has the aim of a stormtrooper in using a semi-automatic.”

the quote above is genuinely the only time i laughed during this book. granted, i know it’s not a rom-com or a comedy, but still. 

this book was entirely too fast-paced for the overall plot. i don’t think i’ve said this in a review before, but this book should have been much longer. the whole fbi, murder mystery, cracking a case, etc plot cannot (in my opinion) be shoved into a book that’s less than 130 pages. 

as for the characters, i have no idea what their backgrounds are. there is very little character development, and i honestly found the fmc very immature and annoying. more, all we really know about the mmc is that he’s heavily tattooed, “knows how to cook”, and does the bare minimum for his love interest. 

also, apparently the contents of this book happened in the span of 3.5 weeks (as per a quote from the book) yet the readers have no indication of the passing of time or when the story is taking place at any given point. 

all that being said, this felt very wattpad-y and rushed. if there was more time taken to really flesh out the story and draw it out like i think it should have been, it would read better and make much more sense. given that i’ve received the arc for book 2 and did not enjoy this book, i am very nervous.