The plot for the most part made sense and kept me engaged. What ifs were pointless wastes of time, of course, yet he couldn’t stop himself.

One simply adapted and learned to live with it. He believed everything happened for a reason, even if the reason remained elusive, at times. However, I’m now wondering if their names were even Ben and Jerry.įranco sighed, his gaze fixed on nothing. The one exception is the couple Ben and Jerry, who I remember for obvious reasons, and they had a threesome with Franco off the page early on. Outside of the protagonists, Franco, who witnessed his father’s murder as a 4-year-old and is the black sheep of the family because he’s gay, and Aidan, the new-to-town cop who doesn’t do corruption, I don’t recall anyone else’s names or even really their part in the story. I’m about a week out from reading it and I don’t remember anyone’s names or specifics. If there was one weakness apart from the language, it was the characters. And then the second one, I was just pissed about.īut first, let’s talk about the characters. I mean it was obvious it was coming looking back, but I got caught up in the story and didn’t pay attention to the clues or hints. The first WTF moment happened and I had to take a few minutes to collect myself. And if my reaction to the two big reveals in the novel are anything to go by I really should read mysteries/thrillers more often. However, when the publicist reached out about this one with a gay protagonist I thought sure why not give it ago.*Īlthough there were definitely some issues with this book, pretty sure the authors native language isn’t English, for the most part I enjoyed it. It does not store any personal data.In general, I don’t read a lot of mysteries or thrillers, even though I really should (see next paragraph).

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Blackout by Marco Carocari