Bruce Watford

Too Much

Revisado: 05-07-25

Virtually everything in this book was too much. Talia was constantly hysterical, to the point that the narrator (who was great) was sometimes hard to follow. Zayne was more subdued, but his reactions often didn't really match the situation. Without Talia's internal monologue, many reactions to a situation didn't make sense. Also, I'm probably in the minority her, but I thought all of the softcore porn fantasies were completely unnecessary.

Talia's mother was over the top, but at least interesting. Biscuit was my favorite character.

The standard fantasy scenes were the only ones I found very interesting. I was expecting this to be the start of a good fantasy series, but now I'm not sure I could make it through a second book.

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Excellent Book

Revisado: 05-01-25

As good as Dungeon Crawler Carl (and funnier). Croc, of course, is my favorite character. Looking forward to the next book.

The author responded to me on a Facebook thread. He said he hopes to write six books in the series.

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Overall Good

Revisado: 01-29-25

Overall, I liked this book. But, I think there could have been less written about high school. Also, the ending could have gone in two obvious but very different directions. I would have preferred the one not taken in the book.

The narrator was excellent.

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Almost 5 Out of 5

Revisado: 12-27-24

I only give 5 stars to books that have become my all time favorites. While this book didn't quite make it to that level, it was very close. It deserves 4 1/2 stars.
The emphasis on insects and spiders made it very unique, compared to other police procedurals. I also really like the character of Vanessa Marwood. I could imagine this book being a great movie.

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What Was the Point?

Revisado: 06-14-24

I've read all of the books in this series and, overall, I've really enjoyed them. But, even from the prequel short story, the author wrote sections that I didn't like and considered irrelevant. In that prequel, it was all the stuff about the house they were building. Then, for the next several books, it was the grief Matilda had about her husband. Now, for Book 7, it's a story about a spree killer.
I, and apparently most other fans of this series, prefer books about individual murder cases and the twists and turns until the murderer is caught, not a story about a (apparently superhuman) spree killer.
Also, I found several situations in this book to be laughably unrealistic. An early prison scene intended to show how powerful the villian was, many actions by the police, and several actions of the spree killer would NEVER have gone that way in real life.
As always, the narrator was great.
I bought the next two books. I really hope they return to the earlier form.

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Great Start to a New Series

Revisado: 04-23-24

I really enjoyed this book. The ending had a lot of twists I didn't see coming. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

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Wow!

Revisado: 04-29-23

I loved everything about this book. From the very beginning, it had the tone I like in a mystery. Close to the end, I knew I had figured out the killer. Then it changed. Then it changed AGAIN... and then the book ended. Wow!

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Quirky, But Not Great

Revisado: 11-26-22

The birdwatching references made the story kind of quirky. But, overall, it was very slow and didn't get really interesting until about the last hour. Both main characters seemed to always be either too nice or too mean for the situation. The childhood flashbacks were interesting, though. The narration would have been fine, but the volume decreased drastically every time it switched to his childhood.

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Not Very Believable

Revisado: 10-26-22

This book started out very interesting. But, when the detective started narrowing down suspects, it quickly went beyond the limits of believability.

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This Writer Shouldn't Narrate

Revisado: 06-24-22

This story was pretty good, even though the main character suffered through a lot of horrible things. But, I would have enjoyed it much more with a different narrator. The writer narrated mostly in monotone and ran the dialogue together with the description of who was talking (e.g. "I don't want to diehesaid").

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