Sigh I think I wanted to like this one more than I ended up actually liking it. It didn’t engross me enough to compel me to keep reading, but it was a nice change of pace.
I think there’s something about cavalier murder of exhaustion or neglect that is off-putting to me. To be clear, in my real life I find all murder, of any form, off-putting! FBI agent, please disregard these musing and/or note that they are, in fact, about fiction–
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
Well, moving on.
Finlay’s life is quite a bit more stressful at the outset than I was capable of handling, and her newly discovered side gig of sort of maybe contract killing but not super professionally (Villanelle she is not) really just adds more stress to the whole set up in a way that never let me get into the Weekend at Bernie’s type vibe that Cosimano I think was going for. The book is definitely one Situation after another, but without some respite to breathe it’s hard to get on board. For me, at least. I suppose the fact that there are more books in this series and they aren’t titled “Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (In Maximum Security Prison)” is a bit of a giveaway that our ambitious leading lady is going to make it through mostly unscathed.
