Review: Good story but a weak character lets it down
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2011
I was provided with this book free for review purposes.I am not sure if this novel is part of a series as it makes references to previous events and this may be the problem as one character in particular came over as very shallow with a confusing background, but this character "Big Bob" may have been developed in a previous book and readers of these may be able to relate to him.The problem for me starts early on in the book where he is variously described as a 31 year old ex-marine and a few pages later as a third year undergraduate, with no explanation as to why or how this came about, after this apart from one piece of action he does nothing apart from eat and make irrelevant comments until at least 90% (Kindle measure) into the book when he turns into an action hero and starts to become a character with some depth. This spoilt my enjoyment of the whole book as the rest the characters in the book, even the minor ones, seemed to come to life as did the locations. The story was good and although not particularly original could have been a very good read, and 4* at least, if only the author had spent a little more time developing the "Big Bob" character.