I made it through, so clearly i found some things good about this book, but ooof i was annoyed a lot of the time. Mainly by it being extremely slow-paced. I think the story would have worked out better for me if it was about a third or maybe half of its lenght. A bit like the kind of fanfic that Nick writes, actually. But also, while I was hopeful in the beginning that it would be at least a tiny bit critical towards that profession, it turned more and more into an ode to cops towards the end. And the reporter who is described by Nick in terms of misogynist tropes and then actually turns out to be as horrible as he says was an annoying move too. I might still read book 2 🙄