I think I said this about the first book too, but this book is very clearly written by a man. The descriptions of women and how man experience these women are just over the top. I thought the pace of this was much slower than the first book and took way too much time setting up the climax. To the point where I couldn’t really remember where we had come from and what was relevant.

I like that different perspectives are used throughout, although I think it’s kind of a lazy way to explain what’s happening in the story. It also created some confusion when perspective would change from sentence to sentence and I wasn’t sure who was talking or thinking anymore.

I thought the technical terms were handled a lot better in the first book as well. This time, I found myself struggling to keep up with the CIA terminology and industry banter.