Review: Good with reservations
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
This is a pretty good book, though it has its flaws. The biggest problem is the journal referenced in the title. It's over the top, too long, and just boring. So to use it as a tool to explain the bad guy and move the story along makes the story weaker, not better. Also, that the bad guy escaped was utterly predictable--and I'm not so sure believable.That said, I liked Jack and his sidekick, and I thought this was a good mystery.One note: I read Parsons' other book with the psychologist and in my review said what just about everybody else said: Geez, that main character was unlikeable! I didn't realize this was the same author until shortly into this book. Then something clicked, and I went back and checked the author in both, and voila. The psychologist (was Kate her name?) from Parsons' other book makes a few brief appearances in this book, but thankfully, she's not prominent, and the author seems to acknowledge her unlikability here.