Tim Marquitz

Eyes Deep

Sarah Escorsa

✔ Yes, this is me DNFing a short story again. 

✔ Yes, this is me DNFing a book with a high rating again.

And you know what?



In fact, I care so little I didn’t even bother to check when exactly I gave up on this. Yes, that's how gripping it was. Sigh. No, make that double sigh. Because that's actually very sad. And I actually do care. Because I really wanted to like this story. I've been binge reading UF since I discovered the genre about a year and a half ago but it's all getting pretty boring now. There are hundreds of series out there but after a while you get the impression you're reading the same book over and over again. Female lead, female author, vampires, werewolves, blah blah blah… The lack of originality is just killing me. So I was really excited at the thought of reading a UF short story written by a male author, with a doppelganger male lead. Expect that it bored me to death. And that I didn't like any of the characters. And that I found the plotline as interesting as the one in The Duke and I. Okay, that's a mean thing to say. Maybe not the freaking Duke and I then, but it would be the understatement of the century to say the story didn't fascinate me. 

What I really don't get is why everyone but me seems to have, if not loved this story, at least enjoyed it quite a lot. I mean, I'm the first person of GR to give it a 2-star rating and everyone else rated the book either 3, 4 or 5 stars… What didn't I get? I should have loved this. It's supposed to be dark, with morally ambiguous characters and no HEA. A dream come true! This book was meant for me! Except that it wasn't. And I just don't understand why. It's not bad. It's not badly written either. I guess it's just not for me.



►► The hunt for a UF series written by a male author and with a male lead continues. So far Jim Butcher is the only author that managed to do the trick for me (I ♥ you Harry Dresden!), but I'm not losing hope. Because Queen Elizabeth is on my side.

Eyes Deep

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