Review: Too contrived
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
I couldn't understand why I was having trouble getting involved in this book and then it came to me. I didn't care at all about the characters, especially the lead. The author spends too much time trying to make her clever and flippant, instead of making her interesting and someone a reader cares about. There was a lot of potential there - a music teacher who moonlights as a photographer and sleuth. That is a great jumping-off point! Unique and different. But too much effort is put int trying to make her wacky and quirky. That's a very difficult thing to do for even the most experienced writer. I just don't think that Ms Katy is up to the task yet and it made for a ho-hum, sluggish read for me.