Review: Not your usual silly romance murder mystery--an actually good book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
I won't do a summary of the story because other reviews have already covered that. But I can tell you why I liked this book. It was well written and kept my interest through several days of reading. I had to shut off my Kindle one night because it was 2 a.m. and my personal rule is to not stay up past that time. The story was good enough that I would have kept on reading for quite awhile. Then life got busy and I couldn't get back to reading for a couple of days and the story was gnawing at the back of my brain and calling me to read some more. For me, that is a sign of a good book--sometimes when I have to lay a book down for awhile it isn't worth the effort to try to get back into the story, but this one was.You can tell the author is an English teacher herself because the words are used correctly, the book has been well edited, the logical thinking of the characters is well established, and the descriptions of students and teachers seems very authentic. I was very pleased that the use of quotations at the beginning of chapters actually related to the story being told. (I find it really annoying when an author uses introductory quotes for no apparent reason--why bother? Are they just trying to look intelligent?)There weren't any silly heroines doing stupid things that you know (and they should know) will get them killed, no one taking overblown guilt trips for someone else's stupid behavior. Very little foul language, no embarrassing overt sex scenes, but lots of romance and enough danger to keep things interesting.And best of all, there were enough plot twists I didn't figure out who the killer was ahead of time. I hope to read more of this author's books and that they are as good as this one.