User blog comment:The Jacked Maverick/Why Veil of Secrets Failed/@comment-3452092-20190211185532

Fair points. I had my own major problems with this story. I agree that Naomi never seemed like more than a friend and Kate was too little too late for too much. I might eventually got her ending, but it'll be a long time down the road if I do. Straight female playing a straight male character and quite frankly nothing inclines me to play as a female character, because Flynn is okay as a character, but also seemed more friend material and Grant, well, the main was extremely creepy to me and that never let up.

I think I predicted Duffy in chapter two, but I didn't see the reason coming at all. He lost any trust I might have had in him when he shot Nikolai, because it was very clear that Nikolai was not a danger when he was shot and I never got the impression that Duffy was incompetant, just majorly insulted.

The chapter where Duffy shot Nikolai was the scariest chapter in Choises for me, but this had nothing to do with Nikolai's death and everything to do with my own fear of heights, so this book pulled geniuine emotions from me, but I don't think I was supposed to be creeped out by a love interest and I don't think I was supposed to be more freaked out by the description of climbing the lighthouse than I was the violent death of a character in the same chapter, so that can probably be considered a fail.

I have somewhere stated that I wouldn't mind them doing something in this style, again, but what I meant by that was the clues and your right, they messed up badly when they revealed Kate was fine so early and when they killed off the prime suspect almost at once.