Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville
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lightreadsZero at the Bone by Jane Seville
I DNFed out of this M/M romance months ago and am at last admitting that I'm not coming back. It's about a hitman who, for reasons, ends up on the run with a doctor, and stuff happens. Written – quite competently – by someone I know a bit from fandom, but I lost interest when she revealed that the hitman is OMG secretly a "good guy" because he's working for the government. Because killing people on government orders is cool, you know? which made him so much less interesting. And made the romance – which was shaping up to be conflicted and thorny and thoughtful – just . . . not. You know, that thing where there's an obstacle, and it's a tough one, and you're settling in to watch an author work some people complexly through it, and then the author is like nope, just kidding and sweeps the obstacle away. Dirty pool. Ther was still a lot of book to go, so it still could have been good, but eh. So many other books in the sea.
I DNFed out of this M/M romance months ago and am at last admitting that I'm not coming back. It's about a hitman who, for reasons, ends up on the run with a doctor, and stuff happens. Written – quite competently – by someone I know a bit from fandom, but I lost interest when she revealed that the hitman is OMG secretly a "good guy" because he's working for the government. Because killing people on government orders is cool, you know? which made him so much less interesting. And made the romance – which was shaping up to be conflicted and thorny and thoughtful – just . . . not. You know, that thing where there's an obstacle, and it's a tough one, and you're settling in to watch an author work some people complexly through it, and then the author is like nope, just kidding and sweeps the obstacle away. Dirty pool. Ther was still a lot of book to go, so it still could have been good, but eh. So many other books in the sea.