I’m calling it. DNF 25%

This was not very good. I was bored out of my mind and had no investment in the characters or the plot. I was interested in this firefighter/mc hero but he’s kind of a bulldozing douche and the heroine is all ‘not like other girls’ and we are told everything about their previous relationship but shown nothing. Plus it’s already hinting at them not being together because she thinks she isn’t good enough for him, I can’t with the negative motivation and characters with their heads up their asses. I’m also pretty sure she’s a grown ass adult virgin, I can’t stand that trope in contemporary. I thought this was going to be a high action suspense book but it’s just everything I hate in contemporary romance, plus guns (which I also have no interest in).
The first book was slightly boring for me, but this one was excruciatingly so. I made it to 25% and read over two dozen descriptions of guns and barely one of the heroine ffs. This book is guns guns guns guns guns, there is more gun information in this than a NRA newsletter (I’d imagine). Honestly, I get that the author is knowledgeable and wants to seem like a badass but this info dumping is killing me. I want to say this might be a geographic thing, because I’m Canadian and we don’t have any fascination or love for guns here, but I can’t imagine even American readers want this much technical gun information in their romance, yeesh.
This was a big nope for me.