This genre is not usually what I go for but I wanted to read something of the sort and it was free on Kobo so I decided to give it a go.

This book tells us the story of C.T. Ferguson, a man who after finishing college goes to Hong Kong for three years during which he becomes a hacker and consequently leads him to be incarcerated for a few months in China. Out of jail and back in his hometown, Baltimore, C.T. has to choose whether he wants to work to support himself (like a regular person would) or depend on his wealthy parents for income and work as a Private Investigator pro-bono. Now if you’re wondering if there’s much else to it… no.

This is the kind of book you finish in a day or two, but the story is so dull that you don’t even get the urge to want to know what’s about to happen next. Some say the premise took some time to be established, but to me personally, I don’t think there was one at all. The plot is decent enough, but the mystery was not there. This book reminded me of those puzzles we used to do as kids where we were supposed to connect the numbers and then would get a figure at the end… It goes from one thing to another with nothing much to add. Nothing extraordinary happened. I wasn’t surprised with twists and turns as you usually do in these kinds of books.

There was so much potential to it, though. Tell me more about what he did in China, how did he learn to use a gun or be a badass fighter, what were the reasons he chose to become a P.I. other than the sob story of his sister dying - which, let me tell you, not even that made me feel for him. He is basically just doing what mommy and daddy tell him to do and playing detective throughout the book just to get a large sum of money at the end.

C.T. isn’t the only problem, though. He is the main character, yes, but if he doesn’t have much development as a character imagine the rest of them! None of them are very engaging and you don’t even get to sympathize with the victim, in my opinion. Every chapter seems forced and more of the same - he needs food, coffee, and to either meet one or two criminals. Oh, also! His cousin detective who seems so frigid I almost felt like striking out the dialogue between those two.

We all have different opinions and that is what makes this community so beautiful, really. I thought I would love this and to me, it was just … meh.