Thank you to the author and to BookSirens for the ARC.

This book bills itself as a mystery/thriller with a side of romance, however it’s very much leaning towards being a romance with a pinch of a mystery, and that’s where my issue with the story is as the romance is built on petty jealousy and squabbles.

Regge is actively grieving at the start of the book, his lover was killed in front of him, and he’s recently in the modern day having to come to terms with an extreme amount of information and different attitudes. So why not take him to a gay club and get petty when he’s drawn away by a strange man after he’s been left alone? This is the foundation of the relationship and almost every argument that follows on from it.

While this book is the first in a series, it reads like a spin off of an already established series with a handful of characters referenced back to, or, if this isn’t the case, without being fully rooted in this story.

I’d had such high hopes from the premise as a man out of time becoming involved in a magical murder mystery could be so much fun, as well as Hunter’s talent of seeing a few seconds into the future. This wound up being under-utilised and only manifested to advance the plot on. I was hoping for more than I received from the mystery and could’ve done with a different set up to the romance.