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A review by misha_ali
Don't Call Me Hero by Eliza Lentzski
2.0
I did not enjoy this book because of one thing: Julia. Cassidy seems like an actual nice person who deserves someone who treats her with care and respect at the very least and Julia treats her appallingly during this book. Cassidy helps Julia in a variety of ways, tries to solve a white collar crime and makes herself available physically and emotionally to Julia at every opportunity. Julia's only explanation for being an ass is that she came back to the small town she grew up in because her brother (also a vet, although literally nothing is made of this connection to Cassidy) commits suicide and she feels guilty about abandoning her mother, who is now suffering from dementia and needs around the clock care. Julia is angry and bitter about being in this small town with more money than god, an excellent and well-paid job and being the daughter of the mayor but makes no move to leave it or explain why she can't just take her mother and leave.
Cassidy is treated as an object and then tossed away so frequently, I was waiting for a single flash of humanity from Julia. The most she does is buy a dreamcatcher for her. Then she serves up Cassidy in court to destroy her reputation in the town as a new cop to save her father who she knows is guilty. At the end, Julia has inexplicably decided to move on now and shows up at the same bar as Cassidy with no apology, just a drycleaning bill as a callback to their first meeting there. Cassidy, instead of being angry and expecting at least an apology if not full on groveling, immediately discards her anger because Julia is hot.
That was the other problem with this book. Julia is hot, repeat ad nauseum. There doesn't seem to be much more to her aside from being an ass, being hot, rich and treating people like garbage. There are two more books in this series but I am so annoyed with Cassidy not finding anyone else who is literally a slightly decent human to moon over that I don't want to read them.
Cassidy is treated as an object and then tossed away so frequently, I was waiting for a single flash of humanity from Julia. The most she does is buy a dreamcatcher for her. Then she serves up Cassidy in court to destroy her reputation in the town as a new cop to save her father who she knows is guilty. At the end, Julia has inexplicably decided to move on now and shows up at the same bar as Cassidy with no apology, just a drycleaning bill as a callback to their first meeting there. Cassidy, instead of being angry and expecting at least an apology if not full on groveling, immediately discards her anger because Julia is hot.
That was the other problem with this book. Julia is hot, repeat ad nauseum. There doesn't seem to be much more to her aside from being an ass, being hot, rich and treating people like garbage. There are two more books in this series but I am so annoyed with Cassidy not finding anyone else who is literally a slightly decent human to moon over that I don't want to read them.