Vickie Sigmon

Huge Taylor fan, but...

Revisado: 06-10-24

I am a dedicated Jodi Taylor fan. I am not a fan of dangling plots that may or may not be resolved in the next book. In this book, Taylor leaves me feeling unsatisfied with at least six major cliffhangers, plus some still dangling from previous books. Like Taylor, I am not a young person. I hope she and I both live long enough to know the outcomes. I have bought all Taylor's St. Mary's and Time Police books, even the shorts, so if we are around long enough, I expect to buy more.

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sick, twisted, old soap opera plots

Revisado: 08-04-23

I could feel my IQ dropping with every page I tried to read. Just awful cliches and bunk and I don't even know the words to use to describe this book. What type of person could possibly be entertained by such as this? Audible says I can't return it because I didn't use a credit to buy it...nonetheless, I did spend $12+ of my money to purchase it. I am sorry, author, but the book really is this bad. If it had been free or if they'd let me return it, maybe I wouldn't be so hard on you.

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Louise Penny, why?

Revisado: 06-24-23

I don't understand why this author---whose skill with words can at times stop my breath---has chosen to plot her recent books around cliche madmen who torture and mutilate victims and other absurd scenarios. Is Jeffrey Deaver ghost writing for her?

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Too much

Revisado: 08-11-22

This is my second time reading the early Longmire series over a period of years and now remember why I quit buying these books. Plot foil after plot foil, wrong suspect trail after wrong suspect trail, and oh my goodness person after person after person after person after person are all stuffed into the plot. This book feels like the author wrote hours upon hours of action and stunt scenes for the aging protagonist who is 2 years away from retirement then scattered in elements of several plots to showcase the action and stunts. In the last half hour the guilty party is revealed. This person has been such a minor character in all the cacophony of the book that I don't remember how the person is connected to the crime victims. Guidall's narration is stellar, as always.

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Time for Diocese to Disband Deliverance

Revisado: 07-01-22

An on-going theme in the Merrily Watkins book is her desire to convince the Diocese that a Deliverance person is needed. After this book, I say shut it down! This particular story involves murders and a sort of vague loosely tethered folklore, but the plot seems to be a collage of under developed ideas . Rickman tries really hard to spin the tale around the life of a famous dead poet, but this is not essential or even important to the plot. There are rumors of caves. There may be good and bad Druids. Maybe there was a ghost sighting a century before. There is no spiritual crises and there is no description of the denouement....no description of what actually happened when a principle character encounters the very weird chick in the woods...because the principle has no recall of the event and the-old-guy-to-the-rescue explanation is not shown in real time but offered sort of as a footnote in the closing pages. At the very end, a recurring character alludes to a new death as a murder and I thought, "What? Where is that surmise coming from?" I have bought and read all the Merrily books to date. I kept hoping that each new book will be more satisfying. Rickman has written several other stand alone books which are clearly "horror" or at least spooky and are satisfying even if a bit silly at times. This Merrily series no longer has any juice.

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Hanging in

Revisado: 02-04-22

I am trying to appreciate this book. The abrupt fast-foward a couple of years early on leaves me very confused about the characters and their relationships. Protagonist has mannerisms and aptitudes that don't fit her bio as presented thus far. Narrator is wearing me out with overzealous acting...I get startled (not in a good way) when she goes over the top. I'm sorry I can't be positive about this performance and this book. If I finish the book and change my mind, I'll edit this review.

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Cryptic

Revisado: 11-07-21

Is the right word "cryptic"? Maybe just baffling. I appreciated/enjoyed the first two books in the series. I have re-read several parts of this book (#3) trying to make sense of it. The time-line changes (and subsequent belated revelations of what was actually going on) were extremely frustrating. Maybe maddening. In this book, the unreliable narrator POV appears to be the author. I want to support this author and offer testimony to her writing talents and original take on the Holmes story. I hope #4 will be a less-can-actually-be-more approach to the plot.

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Not for me.

Revisado: 07-11-20

Crazed psycho gruesome sadistic, etc. Despite Angus King's wonderful performance, this series is not for me. I tried the second book, too, and decided my life is too short for 7.5 more hours of these books. I am sorry. I wanted to like the author and the books and I did try.

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Had high expectations because of NYT review

Revisado: 01-06-20

This was on the list of NYT Best Crime Books of the Year. I bought and greatly appreciated several other books that are on that same list. I had high expectations of Sarah Jane. My dissatisfaction with this book is mostly because it reads like a calm and predictable coming of age memoir rather than what I label as a crime novel. The writing is very good, but I didn't get invested in the lives of Sarah Jane or other characters. I might read but wouldn't buy a sequel.

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Oddly Unsatisfying

Revisado: 07-14-19

I have read all the other Brodie books at least twice and was eager to read this next book. The writing in this book is brilliant, equal to the previous four but I am unsatisfied with the plot(s) and pseudo resolutions. The book feels a bit tired and Brodie's wheel spinning with life---especially with women---is almost boring.

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