A review by sea_silver
Dead Moons Rising by Jack Whitney

2.0

I really wanted to enjoy this book but unfortunately I ended up DNF'ing it around 70%. First, the grammar was atrocious. The book needed to go through at least one or two more editing processes. Secondly, the character development was pretty lacking. Aydra is your typical badass girl who wants to "stick it to the man" but there's not much more to her than that. Draven seems to have a little more depth to him, but he still might as well be a cardboard cut out. The world building is confusing, even more than halfway through the book I wasn't sure what was happening. There's a handful of "spicy" scenes that are just straight-up awkward. There's a lot of fluid love in this book and I don't think I would've picked it up had I known it was going to be so frequent (nothing against it, it's just not my thing). It was around one of these awkward sex scenes that I decided I was officially done trying to like this book. There also needs to be TW of rape. I had the "surprise ending" spoiled for me so maybe that is why I wasn't as committed to finishing the book.

I hope the author continues to write because she has so much potential but this book just fell SO flat for me.