Review: Great blurb, terrible book
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
From the description, this book sounded like something that I would really enjoy, and I’m sad that this did not turn out to be the case. Molly was an interesting character: she spoke several languages fluently, kept a cool-ish head in dangerous situations, and had overcome a lot in her life. I didn’t have a very high opinion of her decision-making skills, though: who tries to nonviolently negotiate with people who’ve twice tried to kill you?? That’s not optimism in humanity, that’s idiocy.There were so many things in this book that didn’t make sense to me, as a person with at least a passing familiarity with logic. For instance, would any reasonable politician or his staff go forward with an event when a credible death threat had been made against him? At a specific event? By a suspected murderer? No. There’s idealism, and then there’s stupidity. I don’t always have the greatest opinion of the electorate, but I have to believe a man this dumb wouldn’t have made it into office. The entire third act of this book makes no sense, in light of events that take place in the middle.Grey is kind of a terrible cop. He doesn’t seem to understand strategy well, and isn't good at prioritizing. Forget police work, how did he survive Afghanistan with such lackluster instincts? He is seriously like the worst. cop. ever. Likewise, his buddy Mike seems like a terrible brother. After connecting Molly and Grey, he seems relatively unconcerned that his only sibling is in mortal danger.I didn’t find Molly and Grey’s relationship to be believable. I’ll admit, the “we fell in love in three days” stories are always a tougher sale, but plenty of authors are able to pull it off. I wasn’t convinced here. At all. I have no trouble believing that they really like each other, but I wouldn’t place bets on their odds of still being together five years in the future. I figure that they might break up once they get to spend a solid month together.This book was a huge disappointment.