The Chestnut Man

The book was well-written and the story itself very suspenseful, but I still kind of hated it if I'm being honest.

Everytime the book changes perspectives, in an attempt to flesh out all the characters, the author delves deeply into their psyche, mostly over at least five pages and describes in detail every thought process and what lead them to this exact point of the plot. I can understand the reasoning behind it and it was sometimes interesting but it interrupted the flow of the story for me. I found my eyes glazing over more than just a couple of times, and I started skipping sentences, even though the main plotline gripped me a lot and I was initially very immersed in the book.

This might be more of a personal problem, but I also had no connection to the main characters whatsoever, no opinion, no feelings, nothing. I would have preferred the time spent describing the side characters going into the development of the main cast.
(Maybe some research about League of Legends too? Ask someone actually playing video games? The game is being described so weirdly and plain wrong many times in the book. “Press magic or you'll fail” Really?)

I enjoy reading about the policework behind murder cases a lot, and in this aspect the book definitely delivered, so that kind of saved the book for me.