The Traitor's Game

1/5 stars
I wished I had DNFed this book. I wasn't planning to read but Spotify had recommended it, it was a free version, and I needed background noise. From the start it was sort of iffy because I couldn't get fully immersed in the story but I had hoped it would get better. It did not at least in my opinion.

Things I appreciated:
. Kestra's wit/sarcasm
. the attempt at giving us two perspectives
.it has a nice cover

Things I didn't appreciate:
This book wasn't particularly good and it is definitely not memorable. I feel like in a couple of months I'll forget that I had read until I came across my own review. I still am in disbelief that this happened over the course of 4 days. At times it felt as if the different days merged or more had passed. Which also brings me to another point which is that it lacked world building. Places were mentioned vaguely as well as world mechanisms but it felt half-assed and felt like it was a missed opportunity to further involve reader. Perhaps this would have helped in my case because j didn't get attached to the story at all. The one character I actually cared for died.

I liked the idea of having two different perspectives in this book. Unfortunately I felt like it wasn't executed well. It feels as if there wasn't much difference in the perspectives and that at times the two voices merged so much that it just felt like one voice.

The romance was the worst aspect of this book in my opinions. It could just be due to my deep hatred of the instant love trope. Also I felt like Kestra had more chemistry with other characters than with her love interest so that didn't help much either.

I don't recommend this book. Its definitely one that you can skip.