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A superficial collection of tropes
For the first three chapters of the book, the crime writer narrator teams up with a beautiful medium to solve crimes they somehow keep coming across. The mini-mysteries are simplistic, their solutions overexplained. The characters, as cliché and two-dimensional as they come.
Most of the book reads like an adolescent fantasy, with the smart man and the oh-so-beautiful but vulnerable woman by his side. Her appearance is described to death. In fact, if I had a yen for every time her green eyes are mentioned (almost literally every other sentence she's in), I'd be happy to use them to buy many, much better books than this one.
The promised twist, not entirely unexpected, addressed some of my issues with the book at least, but we just changed one trope for another. The author tried his best to be clever, but making the reader suffer through hundreds of pages of blandness to set up your twist isn't good writing.
A few words on the audiobook: If you like full sound effects and music throughout (think sad string quartets for sad scenes, sobbing included), you may enjoy it. I like to imagine the scenes myself, and thought it was annoyingly over-acted.