Lyv Lamere

This is Instalove and Mystery in one book. While Instalove is not usually my thing, it leaves a lot more room for the mystery and I love it. I am so happy there is no relationship drama. The two main characters are a great couple and I love their humor. And if you found nothing LGBTQIA+ in this book, I guess you didn’t read it. 😉
The book is well written, I don’t see any logic errors, typos or grammatical errors. It is written from third person point of view, but it switches from whose point of view it is. I feel like the author is letting us in on all the character's thoughts exactly when we are supposed to, but you always know which character's thoughts you are currently reading about.
The drama free relationship and the new reading perspective makes this different to me and I love it!
I read this book in go and I really hope the second book in this series will be published soon.… (lisätietoja)

I’ll start this off with an apology, this was sent as an ARC which I always feel guilty to critique, I want to love them all, but that’s not always possible. For this one as well, I’m genuinely not sure how much of this is a me problem, and not with the book.
If I’d known more what to expect I would have already know I wouldn’t enjoy this book, but it surprised me and very much was not what I imagined. I also don’t want to say too much on it as I couldn’t actually read it properly, I read the first 40% and then skim read or skipped bits until the end. So this may get better at some point and I just missed it.

The writing is good but it just didn’t seem to have any spark of life or personality in it for me, I didn’t like or care for the characters at all. I also just didn’t feel like there was any chemistry or suspense to their relationship, it felt like an old married couple right from their first meeting, or probably more accurately just like long time friends.
It was not what I expected at all, I hadn’t reread the synopsis when I picked up this book, and I ended up so confused.
From the cover it looks like the silhouettes of 2 women so I expected an LGBT relationship. The plot and characters are also not explained at all, so without going back to the blurb or the letters they receive, I wouldn’t have known what the point of the book was.
The cover is just so gorgeous, but I think it gives very different assumptions compared to what the book actually is.

There’s just not enough plot, action or twists for me personally, no complications or grit, I didn’t get on with it at all and found it boring. I didn’t really care about the characters or mystery. The letters and mystery also just seemed strange, not very realistic or interesting. Perspective is also all over the place, which I don’t like, it all comes on very strong to start with, throws you in at the deep end with their insta-relationship and instant spice… but then for me just fizzled out.
I found it difficult to get into, the pacing feels off and confusing, very much like I just opened up the second book without reading the first.
It wasn’t for me.… (lisätietoja)