Review: Sinister crime
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
For those who enjoy murder, mayhem, and suspense, they will find this book appealing. Personally, I did not enjoy the book. I have discovered this is not a genre I enjoy. I trudged through it because I wanted to be fair in my assessment of the book, as well my curiosity needed to be assuaged. I had to see if the villain was caught and if there was a happy ever after ending. The challenge with reading on a Kindle, it is not as easy to "flip" to the last page as it is with an actual book. I enjoyed the book in the beginning, but toward the middle, it seems to start dragging on and on. I needed a quicker ending. As I indicated before, the genre is a little out of my element of comfort.Julia Madeline wrote a book about things we would rather not acknowledge. Much to our dismay, there are actually dysfunctional families like Scarlet Rose's. They are people who have fallen into lives of exotic dancers, prostitutes, drug addicts, gangs or forced their children into these lives. They have lost their hope in achieving a better life.That may be another of the reasons I didn't particularly care for the book. It brought to the surface things I don't care to think about, not because I am prejudice about them, but because I can't save them all, and that is what my humanness would want to do.Scarlet Rose is a sinister woman without heart. She is full of malice and self-righteousness, and steeped in greed. How anyone escapes her unscathed is beyond me. Who would turn their sixteen year old daughter into an exotic dancer so that she didn't have to work, and then manipulate her loyalties. I know that this happens and it makes my skin crawl.Having said that, I did feel that the book was well written. The characters were believable; and I did not find any grammatical errors.  Although I did not enjoy the book, I feel safe in saying that I do believe it will find its targeted audience and they will enjoy the book. That is evident in the praise that this book has garnered.