I requested a copy of this from the publicist, when they reached out to me about my next read, Mike Papantonio’s Law and Addiction.* Unfortunately, I probably should’ve just stuck with the latter. This book has a lot going for it, the protagonist sounds interesting (a veteran, a cop, a dark secret), the location is exotic (Hawaii), and international intrigue, but nope nothing pays out.
I’m honestly not sure whether I should be more mad at the author or the editor. I’m not sure there was an editor, based on some of the super repetition (that had nothing to do with the story or dropping clues) and the super formal/stilted way the characters spoke to each other. Seriously, it was painful at some points. I did look into Oceanview Publishing and it says it’s an independent publisher, but based on this book I had to wonder if it was more vanity than independent, which doesn’t reflect well on them.
As I mentioned in my 
If Rowling is going to take so long between these – she may need to include recaps of the previous books. It would make life so much easier.
When the publicist reached out to me with this way back in December I wasn’t 100% sure I wanted to read it.* At the same time, I knew I wanted to try to read a little broader this year so I said yes anyway. What I didn’t expect was to start this at 9pm one night and finish it by noon the next day on my lunch break at work!
I received a request to review this back in December* before everything happened with my mom and before we moved and I’m just now starting to play catch up four months later. Right as I’m finally making progress on my backlog of ARCs and galleys I start to request more. When will I learn?