This is one of only two books out of maybe a hundred that I’ve listened to and requested a refund. Ugh, like another reviewer, I only got about a quarter of the way through it and realized that nothing was going to make this worth listening to. For starters, I don’t get why authors have two narrators if the chapters aren’t CLEARLY voiced as one or the other. Actually, there should be three main characters but there are two narrators. I can’t even remember who the other one was, because if you are lucky enough to hire Joel Leslie, HAVE HIM READ EVERYTHING. Have him read the phone book. Why give chapters to a less-accomplished narrator? Joel has an enormous range of characters and expressions. I didn’t like how the other narrator portrayed the same people we heard just a chapter before.
Also commented before, and not really a spoiler is that the two cop characters are fully in a motorcycle club, breaking laws as they see fit. I get that not all cops are honest, but this just seemed like a stretch to believe, not logical with their characters. Also a stretch to believe is the attitudes of the MC members towards homosexuality.
The biggest complaint from me is that I felt like this was a YA novel. There is so much navel-gazing and “does he really like me?” by these supposed cop/motorcycle gang members, it got to be laughable. My teenage daughter has less angst. It was like any plot was just the sprinkles on the cake of thoughts and feelings. Maybe it gets better, I’ll never know. I couldn’t force myself to listen to it.