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A review by sushmitachowdhury
Dark Objects by Simon Toyne
1.0
- Pacing was so SLOW. I feel like the book didn’t pick up until like the last 15% of the book.
- None of the reveals were surprising. Anticlimactic at best.
- Laughton being brought in as an outside consultant didn’t seem to add anything. All her “observations” and “suggestions” should’ve been things a normal cop would’ve been able to figure it out. Hell, I could’ve given half those suggestions and the most law I’ve studied is Business Law.
- I kept waiting for some sinister reason why Laughton emancipated from her father & kept him out of her/her daughter’s life for YEARS - but it turns out, she really just blamed him for something that was out of his control. As if the poor man didn’t also lose his freaking wife.
- Commander Rees’ retirement speech was so cliché. It’s not anything new and not anything anyone didn’t already know. It was performative at best.
- Why did we need an entire chapter on Laughton’s boxing?
- Romance at the end seemed forced. I felt no chemistry between them at all.
- I did not connect with a single one of the characters.
Anyways, I just really disliked this book. It took me a really long time to finish it.
- None of the reveals were surprising. Anticlimactic at best.
- Laughton being brought in as an outside consultant didn’t seem to add anything. All her “observations” and “suggestions” should’ve been things a normal cop would’ve been able to figure it out. Hell, I could’ve given half those suggestions and the most law I’ve studied is Business Law.
- I kept waiting for some sinister reason why Laughton emancipated from her father & kept him out of her/her daughter’s life for YEARS - but it turns out, she really just blamed him for something that was out of his control. As if the poor man didn’t also lose his freaking wife.
- Commander Rees’ retirement speech was so cliché. It’s not anything new and not anything anyone didn’t already know. It was performative at best.
- Why did we need an entire chapter on Laughton’s boxing?
- Romance at the end seemed forced. I felt no chemistry between them at all.
- I did not connect with a single one of the characters.
Anyways, I just really disliked this book. It took me a really long time to finish it.