Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

While the premise and plot are decent, the style, voice, and poor editing are distracting. This story definitely needed an editor to polish it. The voice is omniscient but switches paragraph to paragraph. One minute you are in the H's head, then the very next line the h's head, and then lo and behold the next line you are in the lead supporting male's head. I wish the author would have stuck with one character for an entire chapter, before switching POVs. Just when you think you have your footing as to whom is even in the room, the scene changes. Days are skipped over. Characters move to different areas without any fluidity as to how they got to the new location. Details are overlooked. Such as clothing that is on, then missing, then suddenly in the way again. The characters get so focused on a relationship and sex that they forget their lives are at stake for a few chapters, despite the fact that they are continually being attacked or inconvenienced with obvious attempts to injure or kill them. It's as if the author took a pause in the story to throw in some sex. I'm all for steamy sex scenes, but this story would have been far better without them. I think this author tried too hard to cram too many concepts and ideas into one story. It reads as if the author sat down, wrote an outline, expanded each idea from the outline, then smooshed them all together with no thought or attention to connecting the sections. (Similar to this rambling review.) There's no need for the random trip to London to make an appearance in society for a week, just to remember that they need to return home and shouldn't have left until they solved two murders (even though they've forgotten that Madame Zuniga's death makes it three murders). Overall, if you are bored with time to waste, are a patient individual, have the ability to gloss over details, and don't have to pay anything to read this story, give it a try. (Note: I only fit two off these categories: the first and last, as this book was free to borrow with Kindle Unlimited. Because I don't fit into the two middle categories, I almost gave up entirely.) If you can accommodate all four categories, proceed to read and enjoy more than I have.