Review: thin, not developed (spoilers)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2012
Unlike the previous books in the series, which I gobbled down like peanuts, this book is disappointing.The characters are thin.  Even if you have read the previous books and remember what the secondary characters are about, they're just stick figures here.  Someone reading this book first without having read the other books would see nothing but names, no character development.The mystery's solution is apparent early on.The daughter's adjusting to the loss of her mother and to having new parents with the speed of light is just unbelievable.We know this is apparently not the last book in the series since the villain is still around (every time I read the name Gary Copper my brain sees it as Gary Cooper), but the characters and readers would have been better served if instead of this quite thin, disappointing book, the author had wound up the series with a richer, more detailed book about the formation of the new family, interwoven with real parts for the secondary characters, perhaps no mystery, and a report of the villain being taken out of commission.There are also a lot of kindlizing errors in the book, but not enough to interfere with reading it.  Hopefully they will be fixed soon,By the way, I find it very annoying to read five star reviews of this book from people who admit they have not read the book.