Review: Could have been great...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
I've been reading these Jamie Begley books hoping after each one that I'll see improvement in the next. I like the premise of each story and can see the potential for greatness but they all fall short. Several issues prevent me from giving any of them 5 star reviews but my biggest pet peeve is the random statements thrown in but never explained or expounded on. What is up with that? If you're going to throw in some random idea, back it up. Or at least put it in so that it's relevant and makes sense. For instance:***Spoilers***Lily sits down by the biker babe that's been shot in the holdup. Lily's hand is mangled...how did that happen? Then Lily is coding in the ER...um, what?Sex Piston raises her shirt and shows Shade her 2 butterfly tattoos and says she was stabbed in 7th grade so that means Lily will be ok....again, what?Diamond hands Sex Piston a check and we find out that SP pretty much paid for Diamond to go to law school. Huh? No set up, just BOOM....I could go on and on...and on...All of these could be interesting plot points but they're just dumped in the story like the author thought "hmmmm, I need something here, so let me just throw in an idea..." Please, set it up, draw it out, make it make sense in the story. The set-up is as important as the WOW statement.  Otherwise, the WOW statement has no WOW and just annoys the reader.