Review: The Code for Love by Anne Marsh

The Code for Love by Anne Marsh
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I was provided both an ALC and an ARC via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.

This unfortunately didn't work for me.  The narration was a bit too monotone for me and the characters were far too immature for my liking.  As this is told from Pandora's perspective I found that much of it felt as if Pandora was rambling for 26 chapters.  I felt like it was one big rambling inner monologue.  This is marketed as an enemies to lovers, but Ozzy is never really her enemy, Pandora is just a workaholic introvert.  Their "meet cute" is super awkward, all of their interactions are immature, their conversations make no sense, and they have no chemistry.  Pandora is constantly objectifying Ozzy and his body or she is complaining and self loathing, it makes for a weird dynamic and the plot suffers.

Having worked in software development for much of my career, I question if the author did any research or has experience in development.  I often found myself saying "that is not how that works" in many situations.  I admit it is possible that my experience could differ from someone else's however many of these situations were inappropriate or just unrealistic for a professional setting.  Inaccuracies like that are an immediate turn off for me in a book.  I also didn't need to be told 50 times that Pandora is an engineer and that is her entire personality.  Engineering is a profession and not all engineers are nocturnal introverts who ignore basic hygiene. 

Overall I think this had a good premise, but this suffered from trying to throw every romance trope into one book.  I wasn't a fan of the rambling style of stream of consciousness style of delivery.  The character development and plot were also lacking.

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