Review of Who: A Stalker Series Novel by Megan Mitcham
Larkin is a successful CEO with a great circle of friends. Her life is pretty amazing but for her asshole father, some of the members of her board who seem to be living in the Stone Age, and the little fact that someone seems to be stalking her. And then there's the intriguing encounter she had on the roof of her building one night. She can't get the man out of her mind. The mysterious man who "saved" her.
I think the premise and the story line of Who is top notch. What isn't so top notch is the execution. I felt as if I were underwater for a good portion of this story - there was so much going on, so many characters added that it was all too much. And the story moved so quickly through them all that I never got a chance to form connections to most of them until toward the last quarter I'd say. I did like Larkin and her circle of friends. If it had just been them I probably would have liked this so much more than I ended up doing so. And if the pace hadn't moved through events like a whirlwind. I liked Bennett, too, but he really wasn't the focus of the story. No, this is not really a romantic suspense as I had believed before reading. It's a thriller with a tiny bit (really tiny) of romance thrown in. If the romance had been brought more to the forefront, or just had been left out altogether, I would have appreciated it a lot more. As it's written, though, it's kind of a throwaway portion of Who.
I did like Larkin's friend Gen enough, though, that I'll probably read her story when it comes out. Here's hoping it's pared down a lot, and given a more thorough character and relationship development than Who.
ARC via Buoni Amici Press.
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Larkin is a successful CEO with a great circle of friends. Her life is pretty amazing but for her asshole father, some of the members of her board who seem to be living in the Stone Age, and the little fact that someone seems to be stalking her. And then there's the intriguing encounter she had on the roof of her building one night. She can't get the man out of her mind. The mysterious man who "saved" her.
I think the premise and the story line of Who is top notch. What isn't so top notch is the execution. I felt as if I were underwater for a good portion of this story - there was so much going on, so many characters added that it was all too much. And the story moved so quickly through them all that I never got a chance to form connections to most of them until toward the last quarter I'd say. I did like Larkin and her circle of friends. If it had just been them I probably would have liked this so much more than I ended up doing so. And if the pace hadn't moved through events like a whirlwind. I liked Bennett, too, but he really wasn't the focus of the story. No, this is not really a romantic suspense as I had believed before reading. It's a thriller with a tiny bit (really tiny) of romance thrown in. If the romance had been brought more to the forefront, or just had been left out altogether, I would have appreciated it a lot more. As it's written, though, it's kind of a throwaway portion of Who.
I did like Larkin's friend Gen enough, though, that I'll probably read her story when it comes out. Here's hoping it's pared down a lot, and given a more thorough character and relationship development than Who.
ARC via Buoni Amici Press.
#bookreview #newrelease #bookseries #thriller #intrigue #MeganMitcham #ARC #BuoniAmiciPress #StalkerSeries
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