Something just didn’t click for me with this one. It’s partly due to the characters themselves, most of the people in this book speak and act like the same person. Some of the characters are genuinely interesting but then they’ll say something which is completely out of character just so they can deliver a one-liner the author thinks is funny. The dialogue verges from laughable to cringeworthy and is definitely the main issue I have with this book.

It’s really frustrating because there is so much to like about this book but it’s held back by some poor decisions. The main character is an wooden slab who just watches cooler and more interesting characters do cooler and more interesting things. Rose is genuinely interesting and it seemed like the book was building up to her actually having to face the consequences of her actions. Does she? Not really, yes people die but that’s other characters paying for Rose’s actions. Do we actually see Rose change because of these sacrifices? No. She just changes her hairstyle and we’re told this apparently makes her a whole new person which feels incredibly cheap.

The main story has a lot to like but it also has huge flaws. During the first main arc of the story it’s very clear that things are going to go sideways, any reader can see that. Yet not a single character brings up the very clear flaw in the mission that they are going on. It isn’t a mystery and when it backfired it left me wonderig why no one brought it up before.

Eames still writes great action scenes and I’m a fan of his humour although I’d argue it was overused in this book. Some of the jokes left me wondering whether I had heard them arleady. I feel like knocking this to a 2 star review but the characters were interesting enough to push it to 3 stars and this book promised and delivered some great moments.

I really hope there’s another book in this series, there’s a lot to like and I’d like to give Eames one more shot.