Broken Monsters

This one didn't work for me at all. I really should've just dropped it near the beginning. The writing style grates. (Most of) the characters are completely flat. The police procedural style parts are flat out BAD, like the corniest and blandest episode of SVU you could think of.

It had a few great moments that pushed me through, maybe 3 or 4 total? I kept thinking it had to get better, if she could write something as clever and interesting as the scene where the jaded detective/gen-x mom has to have her underage daughter turn off the parental locks on her laptop so she could google crime scene pictures, she MUST be able to keep my interest when the plot threads all start to come together and the tension is at maximum right? Nah :/

Doesn't help that it's written in this style that feels like an old gen-x'er trying to speak like a zoomer. The internet and cultural references are painful. Plus some super unfortunate use of AAVE and a couple of weirdly uncomfortable n-bombs.

I have no idea who this book is for. Do not recommend.