I am finally giving up and close the book after 120 pages. I have always loved Karen Rose's books and appreciate her well researched thrillers. But the romance part is just too heavily embedded in clichés and as always constructed in her well known patterns. Reentering the Baltimore series with Book 3 also resulted in a rough start for me because I've read the prequel many years ago and couldn't place any of the characters or what had happened to them in the previous books. But it felt to me like it was expected from the reader that they know their way around immediately. In the end I could not connect to the story, felt quite overwhelmed with so many characters and was really annoyed by the worn out and shallow developments of the romance.
18. Feb. 2025
I am finally giving up and close the book after 120 pages. I have always loved Karen Rose's books and appreciate her well researched thrillers. But the romance part is just too heavily embedded in clichés and as always constructed in her well known patterns. Reentering the Baltimore series with Book 3 also resulted in a rough start for me because I've read the prequel many years ago and couldn't place any of the characters or what had happened to them in the previous books. But it felt to me like it was expected from the reader that they know their way around immediately. In the end I could not connect to the story, felt quite overwhelmed with so many characters and was really annoyed by the worn out and shallow developments of the romance.
18. Feb. 2025
