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A review by railway1721
Sanctum by Jane Henry
2.0
I'm going to mark this with spoilers, but still. spoilers.
First: The whole "she's the best person to hold a gun thats ever held a gun" thing was weird. So weird. Like there was no reason for her to be that good. She could have been good and them all impressed without it being so fucking over the top. She hit every target? Even the ones that were impossible to see.. with a handgun? Right fine whatever. It's supposed to be empowering, I understand. Up until that point I was annoyed with minor character things, but this took me right out of the book. I stopped reading and ranted to my friend about this bit before continuing.
First part B: Why. WHY. WHY the fuck did we have to show off her gun skills in the middle of the think with Leo and Saul? Like it was weird spot to show off. ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE A GALA WHERE WE TALK NOT A FEW PAGES AGO ABOUT HOW WE WANTED TO NOT CAUSE A RUCKUS. YES LETS JUST SHOOT AT SOME BULLSHIT
Second: The FMC and the MMC are horrible communicators. So bad I kept having to go back and reread their conversations because I HAD NO IDEA WHY WE WERE FIGHTING. If that was the intention, cool. it worked. For example, he comes back from going to confront her father all pissed off. They are fighting but not fighting?! that whole scene I understood that he felt like she'd betrayed him and she was thinking he was going to kill her but WHY? Yeah he's a mobster but she fucking knew that? Yes trauma makes you do weird shit but he hadn't once like betrayed her at this point. Then the over reaction of her park after that... WHY THE FUCK YOU KEEPING WEAPONS IN THE TODDLERS CLOSET?!
Third: The AirBNB/house rental thing. I'm sorry. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? You and Aria are great 'hackers' but you don't do a quick google search on the places your HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE are going? Like your brother was just jumped outside a club. Yeah, you are strong man who can handle yourself but even Aria knew something was 'wrong' with the family and y'all didn't fucking do a google search? Often in books 'hackers' is like an ambiguous term that includes a person that gathers information and I really hate that because it's generally not true but in other spots in their book they show both Aria and Aleks doing intel gathering. So this weird fucking think pissed me off so much.
The gun thing is one thing, I'll let a lot of shit go if I like the book. The AirBNB and the gun thing were too fucking much. too fucking much.
First: The whole "she's the best person to hold a gun thats ever held a gun" thing was weird. So weird. Like there was no reason for her to be that good. She could have been good and them all impressed without it being so fucking over the top. She hit every target? Even the ones that were impossible to see.. with a handgun? Right fine whatever. It's supposed to be empowering, I understand. Up until that point I was annoyed with minor character things, but this took me right out of the book. I stopped reading and ranted to my friend about this bit before continuing.
First part B: Why. WHY. WHY the fuck did we have to show off her gun skills in the middle of the think with Leo and Saul? Like it was weird spot to show off. ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE A GALA WHERE WE TALK NOT A FEW PAGES AGO ABOUT HOW WE WANTED TO NOT CAUSE A RUCKUS. YES LETS JUST SHOOT AT SOME BULLSHIT
Second: The FMC and the MMC are horrible communicators. So bad I kept having to go back and reread their conversations because I HAD NO IDEA WHY WE WERE FIGHTING. If that was the intention, cool. it worked. For example, he comes back from going to confront her father all pissed off. They are fighting but not fighting?! that whole scene I understood that he felt like she'd betrayed him and she was thinking he was going to kill her but WHY? Yeah he's a mobster but she fucking knew that? Yes trauma makes you do weird shit but he hadn't once like betrayed her at this point. Then the over reaction of her park after that... WHY THE FUCK YOU KEEPING WEAPONS IN THE TODDLERS CLOSET?!
Third: The AirBNB/house rental thing. I'm sorry. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK? You and Aria are great 'hackers' but you don't do a quick google search on the places your HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE are going? Like your brother was just jumped outside a club. Yeah, you are strong man who can handle yourself but even Aria knew something was 'wrong' with the family and y'all didn't fucking do a google search? Often in books 'hackers' is like an ambiguous term that includes a person that gathers information and I really hate that because it's generally not true but in other spots in their book they show both Aria and Aleks doing intel gathering. So this weird fucking think pissed me off so much.
The gun thing is one thing, I'll let a lot of shit go if I like the book. The AirBNB and the gun thing were too fucking much. too fucking much.