Review: Gripping and Amusing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2011
If you just got a Kindle and want to feed it something that will keep you busy for a couple of days, get this book. It's a lot of bang for the buck!This is my second book by Michael Prescott. I rated it at just three stars only because I started to feel I'd been 'had' intellectually. Yes it is very suspenseful. But maybe it is too suspenseful. I came to the conclusion that Prescott lays out a basic plot for the main story. Then invents a sub-story that he thinks he might be able to connect in some ways to that main plot. Then fills each plot with several obstacles for the protagonist to overcome. Then finds many ways for the protagonist to fail, at least partially, in completing those obstacles, hits the protagonist with a number of serious wounds. It becomes ridiculous.For example, Trish, a twenty-four-year-old rookie cop was traumatized as a nine-year-old when her girl friend was kidnapped, raped and murdered. Then in her first challenge as a rookie cop, she ends up facing the same guy who gets a chance to kill her again. And the Glock 9mm she has in her hand when he approaches her at the end is loaded with blanks. Yet, never fear, she happens to have an old indian arrowhead in her pocket that just happens to fit down the 9mm barrel. Yup. That's how she kills him. Oops, did I spoil it? well, at this point you knew she had to get something like this to work!!Yes it was entertaining and well worth a buck. But I don't want to be entertained in this way again. I'll look for other crime authors.