Review: disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2012
I got this as a free download,  and usually score them more generously,  but even free,  something's are not worth my time... I have to finish the book to give it 3 stars,  and I didn't,  so it gets 2.  5495 locations.Jim Richards is 60 years old, has only one friend and drinks 6 beers a night (he prefers to drink 8 but he's unemployed now) and he also lives with his parents, but they didn't seem to have much personality or input.  But it wasn't his character so much as the simple way that the story was told that lost me.  When pondering on who the killer might be Jim thinks: "Honestly,  I wouldn't know what a killer even looked like.  All my crime books left that to my imagination.  On TV, they were the last person you would suspect, not very outstanding looking" - and that's about the level of all the writing.  It was too banal and I wasn't engaged.  I let it go.Edited to add - I immediately received a very curt comment from the author and looking at the other reviews,  I can see a trend of bullying of any negative reviews,  which puts me off the entire matter.  I would never read anything by Bob Coates again... Bob Coates has since deleted his comment,  but the issue of his rudeness and attempts of intimidation are still true and I will keep this review up.