Every Smile You Fake

DNF @ 52%

Honestly I kind of hated this and can't bring myself to continue.

I really liked the opening chapter - the way Kes ripped the guy apart by profiling him and calling out his bullshit was good, but honestly that was the only thing I liked. I thought we would have more of Kes using her profiling skills, but it wasn't mentioned again (at least in the half of the book I read).

All of the 'Brandee' video were cringy and repetitive, I just started skipping them as what they covered was just regurgitated in the next Kes chapter anyway so they were pointless.

I didn't like whole backstory of Kes and Jeb - the way they met on a one night stand then he and his wife just happened to come to her for counselling. And the sex scenes were unnecessary and felt completely out of place in the story, as well as them being practically copied and pasted from one to the next.

My breaking point was the whole flashback chapters to Kes starting her 'government job' and the testing/harassment by Dennis. It was just so badly written and unbelievable.

I looked up some spoiler reviews to see how this panned out and I'm happy to DNF this one, it sounds like it just gets more ridiculous as it goes.

It's a shame as this was a first from this author but I'm now so put off trying anything else from her.