The Frame-Up

The narrator wasn't a good choice for the book. They sound like Siri and it made it difficult to get into the book. 

DNFing this at 60%.

At 60% of the way through a book about a heist SOMETHING INTERESTING should have happened. Nothing has. The plot is plodding along, the characters (which SHOULD be cool) are only half formed, and nothing. is. happening. How is a heist book this boring????

The reveal of what Archer is is literally the only semi-interesting thing that's occurred, and honestly that reveal does not make sense within the world-building that we've gotten. Which, by the way, is absolutely atrocious. The world-building in The Frame-Up feels so half-assed. The beginning of the book reads like a regular old heist novel, and then suddenly there's magic involved? WHERE DID THAT COME FROM??? I genuinely felt like I had been slapped across the face at the reveal that the main character had magic.

It doesn't fit.

This novel feels like a bunch of puzzle pieces someone smashed together, not caring if they make a decent picture at the end. It doesn't work. It's boring. The characters have little to no chemistry together, and the world doesn't make sense. DNFing. No regrets.

The premise sounded great, but it wasn't. I thought heists were supposed to be exciting, it wasn't.
This book was boring! Some of the heist bits were ok, but the romance was not good. And I am not happy with who Dani ended up with!
I wanted to give this author a go because people really seem to like her books, but it just wasn't for me. I'm not a big romance fan, so I was hoping the addition of a heist would make it better, but I just didn't like it.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an e-arc.