Review: Good characters, fun story and great protagonist. Needs editing, though...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
This book was fun, had a very youthful quality and an interesting mystery/story line. I liked that the author chose to have a lead who was complex, shy, but brave. Jerry is not just solving mysteries for a chance at writing for the local paper, he is figuring out the mystery of himself. Very good job meshing his own self-discovery with the discovery of the crime he is pursuing.There are some elements in this book that need work, which is why I did not rate it higher. Some dialogue seems forced, a few grammatical errors are present throughout, and there are some scenes in which the going-ons of the characters, their positions, etc. are not clear to me. With some touch ups to the manuscript, this could easily be a very fast read, and a very fun one.Thank you, A.J., for the enjoyable mystery. A little editing will make this book a great success, I am sure. Keep writing. Your voice and story was a lot of fun.