Review: Do yourself a favor and read a sample first!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
This book is truly awful, so bad I could not even get through the sample! It is sophomoric, contrived, illogical, and the characters are both cliched and contradictory, even within those few pages.For instance, the heroine (whose name "Akia," made me want to shop for modular Swedish furniture or buy a Husky dog) goes from being a straight-laced, by the book, shy, but ridiculously accomplished cop with a perfect solve rate (because that could happen) into a purring, "seductive" harlot who apparently wore an inappropriate dress to a police function and proudly confesses she didn't wear panties when she knew she would be accepting an award. On stage. Because nothing helps female officers be taken seriously like seeing their naked bits on display. Other equally unbelievable events, such as a police chief trying for a year to convince a waitress to become a cop, then paying her tuition, etc. etc.,  occur. It is infuriating.The quality of writing is also poor, with awkward, run-on sentences and issues with homonyms. At one point, Ikea, sorry, Akia and a friend use the word "a$$" five times in two paragraphs.Other reviewers who say they found this book reminiscent of Criminal Minds or other intelligent works must be exaggerating or like the monkey trying to read philosophy - just because he reads it doesn't mean he understands it.Sorry, and I am sorry, but this is a truly abysmal effort. Try the sample, and if you love it, Godspeed, enjoy, bless you. If not, then you just saved yourself time, money, and serious aggravation