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calistaandrechek's review
3.0
Thank you NetGalley, Peggy Townsend, and Thomas & Mercer for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review.
Aloa Snow is a blackballed journalist who is in debt and trying to deal with her complex eating disorder. When authorities find a body of a young woman in the woods, they decide it was suicide, but her mother and Michael Collins from Novo, who Aloa has a complicated relationship with, think otherwise. Michael, a one-time lover and teenager who was fostered with Aloa, she can’t turn him or the money down. Aloa gets immersed into a world she didn’t know anything about; Aloa needs to solve this crime before she gets hurt.
In the beginning we find out all the issues that Aloa has been dealing with and it makes her more relatable. I generally liked her as a main character, but I found I was more into the other characters in the novel. It was nice to have a flawed character, who not only needed to solve these crimes, but her problems as well. I enjoyed the Brain farm group and how they seem to be her little family and helped her with solving this crime whether she wants it or not. The Brain Farm is a little quirky group and I loved the mix of the characters that make it up.
I adored the ending; it just made the story I personally think. It was just the right amount of serious to silly to make you laugh. There is a lot of background in this novel about the characters that have been murdered and there is a lot of politics around a certain business. So that made me a little less interested in some of the chapters, but I cruised through this novel because I did enjoy the characters and I did want to know why and who committed these crimes. The chapters are a bit longer than I tend to like, but I will definitely be waiting for the next Aloa Snow novel!
Aloa Snow is a blackballed journalist who is in debt and trying to deal with her complex eating disorder. When authorities find a body of a young woman in the woods, they decide it was suicide, but her mother and Michael Collins from Novo, who Aloa has a complicated relationship with, think otherwise. Michael, a one-time lover and teenager who was fostered with Aloa, she can’t turn him or the money down. Aloa gets immersed into a world she didn’t know anything about; Aloa needs to solve this crime before she gets hurt.
In the beginning we find out all the issues that Aloa has been dealing with and it makes her more relatable. I generally liked her as a main character, but I found I was more into the other characters in the novel. It was nice to have a flawed character, who not only needed to solve these crimes, but her problems as well. I enjoyed the Brain farm group and how they seem to be her little family and helped her with solving this crime whether she wants it or not. The Brain Farm is a little quirky group and I loved the mix of the characters that make it up.
I adored the ending; it just made the story I personally think. It was just the right amount of serious to silly to make you laugh. There is a lot of background in this novel about the characters that have been murdered and there is a lot of politics around a certain business. So that made me a little less interested in some of the chapters, but I cruised through this novel because I did enjoy the characters and I did want to know why and who committed these crimes. The chapters are a bit longer than I tend to like, but I will definitely be waiting for the next Aloa Snow novel!
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