This book was okay in places. However, to truly enjoy it, I believe I would need a working understanding of the culture and lingo. Afrikaans words are used and, usually, not given an explanation.

The political climate plays a huge roll but it's not explained very well. Though, if I were a native or spent any time there, it would probably be basic knowledge. Having never left the U.S. there were lots of things I didn't understand and the author didnt explain much pf anything. For a book marketed on multiple continents, the author should have provided more background and explanations for her audience. I don't particularly want to have to Google my way through a pleasure novel..

The characters weren't very... 3 dimensional. Also, I didn't like the MC. I get the gritty detective trope, but some morals would be appreciated. I cannot root/care for a character to succeed when he has no redeeming qualities and does things like cheating on his wife with the spouse of a murder victim. Just no.


DNF. I did skip to the end to see if it was worth continuing. It wasn't. I'm even more disappointed with the characters than I was before.