Phantom Pleasures by Julie Leto
My rating: 0 of 5 stars
I gotta say the premise trapped me. No pun intended, I meant captivated me. The book itself? Not so much. It began well enough with an assortment of characters, some action-filled scenes, a big goal and some bad-guys to catch and vanquish. About 40/50% through the story I noticed I wasn't going anywhere. The supposed romantic interest was annoying, the bad-guys were not that scary and the plot was so convoluted I wasn't sure where to turn. There were hidden meanings in every act and even the main couple wasn't above fighting dirty between themselves, which kinda defeated the point of being allies, so I gave up. Truthfully the whole thing was only making me annoyed and cranky and that certainly wasn't my goal when I started so I left it alone the rest of the week. Wanna know what I realized during said week? Not only had I forgotten about the book but I wasn't even slightly curious to know how it ended, hence my putting the book in my DNF shelf and be done with it.
* I refrained from giving a rating because I didn't bother finishing it. Good luck.
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