About This Book
Summary📌Stand-Alone
📌Release Date: 9/1/20
📌Format: Paperback
📌Setting: Brooklyn, NY
📌Page Count: 352
📌Genre(s): Adult Fiction, Thriller/Mystery/Suspense
📌Date(s) Read: 4/4-4/9/22
📌Rating: Book: 3.5/5 Audio: 4.5 /5 Narrator(s): Susan Daley (Sydney) & Jay Aaseng (Theo)
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When I picked up this book, I was looking forward to it, then, the foul language started, and it almost made me DNF the book. Language usually doesn't bother me until it becomes excessive as it was in the Prologue (maybe some into the first chapter) but I kept going to see if it got better and it did. Thankfully. There is one "open door" sex scene as I saw someone describe it as. Plenty of racism & gentrification. That was a bit much too at points but once it got further into the story, you began to see the point of it.
This is the first book I have read by Alyssa Cole so, of course; I didn't know exactly what to expect. I picked it up from my library while waiting on another book I was wanting to read by her that appears to be a trilogy (The Loyal League). I wanted to get familiar with her writing while waiting. Hopefully the language in this one won't be as bad but looking at the setting, it might be a bit rough but at least I know now to prepare for any possible language.
If racism is a trigger for you, for any reason at all, this is definitely not the book for you. If you don't like a lot of foul language and don't think you'll make it through the prologue or at all, then do not pick this book up. It does get better, but it is still sporadic in the book after the initial onslaught. If you don't like sex scenes at all, especially if there are any specifics, again, this may not be for you, even though it was just one scene.
I am looking forward to trying the Loyal League books and hope I enjoy them.
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