Starts out well, action pumping and character backstories fleshed out just enough to make you care, but not enough to stop the flow of the story.
But the world around them never congeals for me, and the atmosphere of threat and double-cross the story needs can’t happen without it.
Three things I learned about writing:
- Switching perspective characters early on is a great opportunity to give more context to what's happening, since it's another angle on the world
- In a modern setting, you really can cut descriptions down to the bone, to put the focus on dialog and action
- Can do character backstory in a single chapter, covering years of someone's life, with breaks in-between
