Call the Coroner

SPOILERS!!!

Some people think they're playing chess, when they're really playing tic tac toe. My biggest issue with this story is that the plot tried to be bigger than itself, but failed to commit.

1. The intricacies of the cartel life are glossed over: a private plane here, human trafficking there, known criminal just walking around just around the corner. Also plenty of former law enforcement just kinda in bed with criminal associates with no explanation as to how they got there. But anyway, we've got big men with unlimited resources who are just all knowing. Which leads to 2.

2. Syren. Lol. I just went to Google to try to find the best technical term for this character and honestly the best description I've seen is NPC. Just exists to move the plot along.

3. Bruh. The romance is fucked up. It's so fucked up. Its very premise is rooted in being fucked up, but if you didn't realize it was fucked up, know it now.

4. The tic tac toe nature of the plot. It's just kinda boring. Even the betrayals have me going, “Why?” The break ups barely last two pages.

5. That ending twist. Lol. There I was, ready to skim my last 10% even harder and already bored with all the sex scenes, and suddenly, twist! It encapsulates everything wrong with the plot.

6. All the translations. It's literally just, “Spanish/Greek sentence.” English translation. Why? Allow me to infer please. Find some other way to translate: thoughts, actions before/after. Or just let it stand on its own. Leads to 7.

7. The scene where Daniel says, “Send it to everyone,” and Toro says, “How... Oh.” Just paraphrasing here. That was fucking beautiful. And then I turn the page and the author is explaining what it means and I'm like, so this is how this book is going to go. Like trust me to understand.

Very taboo romance read. Intriguing at the beginning, meh from the middle to the end. Plot wise. The writing itself was pretty poetic. But also kinda overdid it sometimes.

This is the first Avril Ashton book I'm reading, I had no idea she has so many books already written and there are so many references here, so I kinda wish I had read all her other books before jumping into this. 

I still absolutely enjoyed it, I love this world, I'm definitely gonna be reading more. It's been a while since I read my last mafia romance, and the fact that this is MM makes it so much better. The chemistry between Stav and Daniel was so good. The sex was amazingly well written. The writing was surprisingly beautiful, I was not expecting to highlight this as much as I did.

I can't wait to read her other books especially Levi and Van's romance.