Premise:



The word "riveting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that opening sentence from the Amazon description. As much as I liked the premise, my Amazon First Reads selection this month was a real disappointment. I got 25% of the way into the book before I started skimming because nothing was happening. It really bums me out when a story sounds interesting, but the author doesn't know how to properly pace a story (or flesh out the details). This book felt like the author either started writing with no sense of when the story needed to get started, or was padding the word count by adding a lot of unnecessary exposition (and yet, inexplicably, very little relevant character development).

The result was a book that, two weeks later, I literally had to look back and confirm I actually read because I didn't remember a thing about it.

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