Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review

DNF @ 27%

I wanted to like this one but I just couldn't get into it. It had everything I could have wanted in a novel: Toronto setting, badass MC, sleeper agent, etc. but all these things ultimately led to it's downfall.

Charlotte was pretty cool with the first action sequence, but then quickly became annoying. She would ask questions that were logical, then "go with the flow" before ultimately asking THE SAME QUESTIONS AGAIN. It didn't seem logical to me that she would be so hard to convince after she saw two of her brothers who told her that she was a spy AND she took down two men and had these "sleeper" abilities. It was just strange to me. And a tad bit annoying. I feel like she just thought the same thing over and over again instead of processing the new information to create new questions for herself about her situation. And there were so many dudes. Four brothers, plus two other randoms, and only one female. And of course upon meeting the female, Charlotte didn't like her name -- or the person. *sighs*

The backstory also wasn't that interesting or intriguing, especially since she didn't immediately tell someone she called Luke. As well, the writing was a bit difficult for me to get into and really connect with Charlotte. It seemed as though there was one story actually happening and then Charlotte's commentary which was just ... not good.

I'm sad to say I didn't enjoy this one, but I just could not handle the writing or the immediate girl hate. I also didn't care enough about Charlotte and her relationship with Luke -- that we knew next to nothing about -- to continue to see if she would stay with Luke or end up with Ham or Benjy TBH.

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