Cameron

So much promise……

Revisado: 12-18-21

*Spoilers*

The premise is interesting. The main protagonist is an American anatomist in England around the War for Independence in the US. What we will learn about medical medical science in the mid-Georgian Era?

Nothing.

It turns very quickly into a Snidely Whiplash knockoff. The villain is easily discernible by his physical appearance, the fair maiden is pathetic at best and Dudley-Do right has a scalpel and white pet rat. (The white pet rat being the most interesting part.)

I want to know which agent was used to knock of the first hapless, asshat know as Sir Crick. I just can’t get myself to turn the book back on. Snidely Whiplash is in the midst of making his desperate sprint for freedom and Dudley-Do Right is chasing him. Someone message me who can “stomach” this.

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Drugged and held captive

Revisado: 08-06-19

I would have to be drugged and held in a sanitarium (much like the heroine) to finish this book. Occasionally you read/listen to a story that is laboriously over complicated and all you can think about is the ludicrously bad luck of the main character. The dialogue is terrible and the heroine is trite. The whole mess is set near a coastal town in Oregon and the narrator cannot save the entire group of murderous geriatrics and woebegone chumps trying to “unravel” the mystery.

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The "Weak Ender"

Revisado: 06-06-16

I fell in love with Mary Kay Andrews when I first read "Savannah Blues" and have enjoyed many of her other books to date. Her last few efforts, however, have felt like a 100% humidity day in Snow Hill, NC - cloying, uncomfortable and with no relief in site. This book plodded along with characters that never develop much depth and with the main character as a semi-spineless mother of a verbally abusive 12 year old. These characters appear in all her other books but with more shading and spice. It left me sighing to myself, "I want Weezie back."

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Gratuitous Violence and Cliches

Revisado: 08-13-15

This book has good bones. I do not mean the bits of osseous tissue that are left exposed after the killer puts his female victims through every imaginable form of degradation and torture that a plodding Jack the Ripper has ever dreamed up. (In fact I am surprised that Ms. Castillo does not have her villain eating his prey at the end.) The premise is intriguing. Female police chief who was raised in the Amish tradition but chooses to take another path after injustice impinges on her childhood. A good start but a graphic and poorly crafted body of work. The writer's descriptions fall flat yet every new corpse has some fresh hell inflicted on it with no nuance as to the twisted mind behind the crimes. Family notifications after another woman has been found read more like a psychopath's porn mag - voyeuristic instead of the, most likely, intended homage to the victim. You will know who the killer is half way through the book and your mind will skip ahead as to the final confrontation between the protagonist and the killer. You will also be thinking that it cannot arrive quickly enough. All in all - don't bother. This reads like a grotesque Lifetime movie. Oh wait - I believe you can rent it on Netflix.

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Older and wiser Alice does "Reality."

Revisado: 07-12-15

While you want to shake your head at the naïve, younger Holly, it's refreshing to hear Holly Madison's story told in her own voice. What!? Living inside an old Hollywood building with a lecherous, geezer isn't a fairytale!? Who knew Huge Hefner was a chauvinist? All sarcasm aside it is fun to hear Holly tell it exactly how she saw it - blinders and all.

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Double Win!

Revisado: 03-08-15

Once again David Way (or Davis....depending on Bianca) strikes again. If you like sarcasm, improbable situations and over-the-top scenes than this is the mystery for you.

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A cheese filled blend of CSI, sopranos and acid

Revisado: 02-17-14

Would you try another book from D. D. Scott and David Slegg and/or Karyn O'Bryant and Jeffrey Kafer ?

No way. They pulled so many stereotypical yet flat characters into their barely there plot it was overwhelming. Not one character ever developed into anything but wallpaper. Even with the use of several explicatives - which seemed like a 6 year olds attempt at sounding like a grown-up - not one sentence crawled beyond the competent threshold.

What could D. D. Scott and David Slegg have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Stop populating your books with granny's wearing scuba suits and try writing some decent dialouge and a coherent storyline.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Karyn O'Bryant and Jeffrey Kafer ?

Almost anyone but them. Both sounded like they were being tortured into reading - when Kafer didn't sound like he was listing baseball statistics.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

A devil may-care-cow. Not something you see everyday.

Any additional comments?

Don't buy this book. I love to listen to half-baked mysteries - bubble gum for the brain. This one wasn't just poorly written - it seemed to have been concocted by someone who left their local watering hole at three am, twelve shots in and who thought they were literary geniuses.

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