I spent some time today with this book. I'm a huge fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plub novels, and I went into this expecting that style. I don't think I got what I expected. Instead of levity this story brings seriousness and romance. The problem? The writing style would have been more aligned with comedy.
The author uses cliches, and much of the writing tends towards over-the-top. In the first few pages the author does a good job of describing the setting, but the characters are all caricatures rather than believable, this tends to undermine the value of the writing and like I said, makes a reader expect comedy or humor.
Although I found it fun, the writing tends to lag, and like I said, I don't think the author was going for fun, as much as they were going for hard-boiled or hard-hitting. Thankfully the mechanics of the writing were clean in that I only saw a few problems, but nothing too rough around the edges. All in all, I was disappointed that it wasn't a book that could draw me in and deliver on what I thought was promise. Back to Evanovich for me I guess.
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