Review: Sloane Monroe=Poor Man's Nancy Drew Meets Lisbeth Salander
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2012
Sloane Monroe is a decent protagonist, but doesn't stay "in character," especially from book one to book three. She starts out more like Nancy Drew, carefully piecing together clues, but playing everything a little close to the vest. By book three, she's running with gangsters because a) she's "acting out" do to still unresolved baggage, even though she had a big closure in book 2, or b) she likes to play with fire, or 3) she likes having muscle to back her up in dangerous situations? Who knows, b/c the author doesn't grow the character organically. One thing you can say about Nancy Drew--over almost 80 books, she's always in character; the same is true of L. Salander--she's always consistently anti-social and true to her own compass. Otherwise, the plot development is OK, and the murder solution is plausible.