Book Stuff: Chameleon by J. Jackson Bentley

I just finished reading Chameleon by J. Jackson Bentley which is the 2nd in the City of London thriller series. I started reading this series because someone I know recommended it to me, they were raving so much about it and kept asking me if I had downloaded it yet that I felt kind of obligated to read it. I have to admit that I quite enjoyed the first book, even though I found some of it a tad cheesy, this led me on to reading the sequel called The Chameleon, but being honest I found this a long and arduous read! I started reading this just as a quick couple of chapters before I fall asleep type of book, but after about three weeks I was still only 20% of the way through it, so I decided to spend most of Sunday getting it read as I have so many books on my TBR to get through and this one was taking way too long to read. The Chameleon is a weird sequel in that the main character from the first book Josh Hammond is merely an extra in this book. The Chameleon focuses around Josh's wife Dee and her security agency who are tasked with protecting an African couple for 72 hours before they give a speech to government. Events take a turn for the worse and Dee and her people find themselves in a battle for justice against a secretive agency called the chameleon. The story was intriguing and dramatic but the book was just too long for me, some of the descriptions and extra characters just felt so unnecessary and I felt like the story could have been told in about half the time without some of the pointless stuff. The author also makes a brief cameo in the book himself, although I'm still not sure if I find this cool or a bit cringey. I'm not sure that I'm going to read the third book in the series at the moment, but I might come back to it at a later date. The first two books in this series are free to download on kindle.