Review: Soap opera like issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I have this thing about soap operas as in the ages of all the characters tend to regress toward a mean in a relatively short period of time. Suddenly everyone in the the entire town is somewhere between 20 and 35 or so and as time goes on their ages get closer together. I sense that happening with these books. And part of the issue is we started way back when Eva was just a young pup. Now I don't remember how old she was when the first book ended and kidn of sort of remember ages in the next two but by this book judging by the age of the kids alone she's older. Which makes Deuce older. It was actually mentioned about how old he was at one point. These book span a serious window of time and I still have the picture of young Eva in my head. And young Dorothy and young Ripper (who I think actually is younger?).... The aging thing is not covered well in these books which has made it all mish mash of people to me that are all basically visually the same age to me. Like I know Deuce's older daughter should be older because his younger daughter is hot and attracting attention now but the older girl hasn't aged.And I have to be honest here. I like these books. I like the over arching saga of all the books. But I'm feeling pretty sure this is about the 3rd time in as many books. Maybe even the 4th that I've read about the shooting. In detail. And granted it's typically from another view point and admittedly Dorothy's was kind of an important one there but I have to be honest after about a page of that I was over it. What would have interested me infinitely more would have been all the time that was just basically skimmed past when she was in recovery and Hawk's involvement with the kid... It was like this after thought in teh book and the book was about her.Instead I got a rehashing of the proposal with ZZ. And actually a lot of ZZ. And then a kind of convoluted Hawk storyline in general. I like my criminal organizations singular in books. Anymore than that... I just can't.It's just this rehashing of a singular point in time with these folks that is getting kind old for me and the age issues.