Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about a few of the many issues I had with Anna Jarzab's Tandem:

Also, the romance is problematic. First of all, it’s a captive/captor relationship, which is always particularly dicey—but CAN be effective (see Meljean Brook’s The Iron Duke for a great example)—and in this case, because of the personalities involved and the specifics of the situation, I just never bought it as viable. I didn’t feel it, I didn’t believe in it and I certainly didn’t root for it. As I’m pretty sure I’ve said before, it’s REALLY hard to root for star-crossed love when the hero is a toolbox.

I was so surprised. I really did think it was going to be a good fit for me.