This book was a dud. It is a book written in the category of “thriller” but it felt amateurish. The writing style is ponderous and awkward, and there way too many instances of telling us about someone rather than showing us.
The men in the book are all bad. The women tend to be good, but naive. The women in this story pull together to become more powerful and to overcome the bad guys.
There is an entire section of the book where a person is called “it” rather than “he” or “she” simply to avoid giving away the gender of the bad guy. With a little more effort this could have been handled more elegantly.
All of the story takes place during the pandemic, and for some reason all the masks and social distance rules are brought up again and again, for no apparent reason other than to point out that it was taking place during the pandemic.
But I did finish the book, so there must have been something worth reading in there.
Next I am reading Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird.
