Review: Slow and plodding
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
This book was excruciatingly slow and plodding. The other River City novels took me 1-3 days each to read. This book took me three weeks to get through. Couldn't stay with it for more than 15-20 pages at a time because it just never got off the ground...until about the last 50 pages. Slow, with page after page of dialog and plotting by the kingpins, followed up with more plotting and planning, and very little action in between. The climax was indeed very good and suspenseful, but getting there was not easy. If I had not read (and thoroughly enjoyed) the previous River City books, I would have shelved this and moved on.On the plus side, the author provides us with another realistic story within the police force, along with the politics and relationships, both good and bad. Real-life can be difficult, and tough situations don't always come with storybook endings, and in that regard this book echoes the author's other work. And because he doesn't write storybook endings, some of the major bad guys don't always get what they deserve...yet. Hoping to see if they're dealt with in future installments.