As a woman with a PhD in a STEM field Temple of Swoon by Jo Segura just fell flat, much like Miri does on those vines. The book follows Dr. Miriam Jacobs as she tries to find the Lost City of the Moon in Brazil. While exploring Miri is unsuccessfully trying to imitate her mentor in being a badass, and she tries so hard but she's just too "quirky" and "adorkable." She takes almost the entire book to have an ounce of character development which made me so sad. To top it all off the main love interest is straight up sabotaging and endangering her the entire time. 

I thought this book had so much potential but it spent so long trying to convince us that Miri was just sooo quirky. If there had been only small hints of her being not like the other girls it wouldn't have been that bad but there are just tens of pages drilling this down. I did not like the main love interest at all. He was reckless and put people's lives in danger. He got forgiven for his literal crimes way too easily. I did think the twist was interesting which is why it made it to 2.5 stars but it was a pain to get there. Last, this book was so long but the ending felt incredibly rushed. I really hope that there is a third book so that we can get some of the magic from the first book back though.