Review: Critical Moments, A Review
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 24, 2012
I haven't read the prequel, so I didn't know what to expect.Critical Moments is a murder mystery with a huge helping of Sadomasochism and Bondage.I read the first 20% of the book, drawn in by the excellent and intriguing murder mystery. I'm not into SM and B. so I started skipping over those bits to read only the mystery part.I would have given the book 5 stars, but in the last third, which focussed on the murder mystery, I was getting lost with attribution. The author uses very little he said, she said, but has the characters refer to each other by name all the time. In the last third, there was so much dialogue and so many characters, I had a difficult time following it all. But I finished the book and got the general gist of what was happening.I get the feeling the last third of the book may have been written a little rushed.Because up to that point, even the most difficult to describe situation was crystal clear, and from this I would have said this writer was brilliant.I think anyone into SM and B would probably like this book very much.I liked the mystery part very much, and hope this author will write more. And for my taste leave out 95% of his characters' sex lives. That's not a reflection on the book, it's just my personal preference.I'm giving it a solid 4 stars for the brilliant writing of the first two thirds, and the excellent mystery.