Review: Well, okay I guess
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
I initially reviewed this on the basis of my Kindle download.  The formatting was so badly messed up that I literally couldn't read the book.  I downloaded it a second time and, as promised, I'm updating my review.The formatting is better now -- I'd rate it as "irritating" rather than "unreadable".  Most page-turns are marred by either several omitted words or several repeated words, so most page turns break my flow.  This may be one reason why the book seems to move slowly, which is not a good quality in a thriller.  (UPDATE:  Weirdness! Now the formatting seems okay.  There are actual page breaks for chapters, ans the problem I noted with multiple words duplicated at a page turn, or multiple words omitted at a page turn -- those problems seem to have gone away.  I can't account for this.  This is about my tenth Kindle book, so I don't think it was user error.)This was okay.  Our narrator was fired from his job as an investment banker, but he wasn't too upset because his first love was writing. He discovered, however, that his five unpublished manuscripts, which had garnered lots of rejections, had all been published recently by first-time authors.  Various stuff happens, but the book felt slow moving.  Things seemed to move faster at around the 75% point, but the big reveal just came out of nowhere and was frankly unbelievable in terms of what had gone before.With the formatting problems disappeared, I give this three stars.  It's okay if you want to kill time, but I don't see myself ever reading it again or seeking out other works by this author.