Review: No thanks
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
** spoiler alert **Spoilers ahead!!!**************When I read a book like this, I start to think..... if this was a real life person, what would a real woman be doing in this situation? I of course, think, what would I do? I most certainly wouldn't be putting myself out there. When a trained professional told me to stay somewhere, I would stay. If he told me not to do something, I wouldn't do it. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't do what I wanted to if there wasn't a life or death situation. However, I would be smart, practical, and use my common sense. Jenn, the heroine in this story, completely shatters the idea of "Smart."Jenn is new in a small town (well she's been there four months and has yet to meet the sheriff) and is a reporter for the Entertainment portion of the newspaper. Like anyone, she wants to move up the ladder. However, her idea to move up the ladder is to investigate a killing (possibly a serial killer) and have proof that she can be more than the silly entertainment reporter she is now.As she's coming down the mountain from her cabin, she sees police tape and police cars. Of course, she works her significant charms with a policeman she had lunch with not too long ago (and who wants her) and gets the inside scoop. This is where Jack The Pushover and town sheriff comes in. He tells her to back off, and she tells him okay. He tells her there isn't anything that he wants her to publish as of yet due to not knowing the victim blah, blah, blah. So she agrees, and then goes right into town and tells the biggest gossip in town.Jack thinks this is cute, and doesn't do anything.Then she starts annoying the holy hell out of me, and does some of the stupidest stuff you could imagine.At one point, Jenn decides that anyone who ever dated Jack is in danger, so she and the two gossips sit down and compile a list of everyone that Jack ever dated (Then they proceed to call them and tell them that they might be in danger, and they should watch their back. The women do what you would think, and start panicking. None of this should even be divulged anyway, because apparently Jenn signed a non-disclosure with the Sheriff's department. Her answer? Oops. Jack's? TO laugh and said bad girl.Here is a quote from the book that really pounds my point home: "Biting my lip and thinking about how mad Jack would be if he knew I was investigating, I almost answered her in a positive, but I felt responsible for the deaths of these women and if I could help find this guy, maybe I would buy myself some absolution for the part I inadvertently played in their deaths." <----- Okay, here Jenn, is where you should have just backed off and let things alone. Let PROFESSIONALS who have been TRAINED take care of things that you have no idea about.Then later on, she gets mad at Jack because he was trying to keep her safe. She didn't listen to him, so he did the only thing he could, and locked her in jail. After getting out, she takes off and hitches a ride with someone to her car. Then goes to a bar. This is all happening when she knows she has a killer after her who has already killed multiple people. So she meets a stranger who flirted with her, and he offers to walk her out to her car. She, being the stupid heroine she is, parked in the back of the bar and conveniently has to walk through a dark alley to get to it. Then the man she is with is stabbed, and Jenn gets her ass kicked. But she's saved! No worries! She gets to continue to live and do stupid things, because for some reason she thinks she is the "Key" to solving these gruesome murders.Later on, after the murders are solved, Jenn decides to use her investigating skills to go to a bank that's in the process of being robbed. I do realize that this situation turned out to be okay, but there was the small part that it was being robbed in the first place. Don't try to stick your nose into something when it's dangerous. Is that too much to ask? Or is common sense hard to come by anymore?Now to things that annoyed me:What's with the saluting? This has nothing to do with the military, yet there is saluting at each goodbye!Then there was the capitalizing of baby, and any other pet names they used. Yet when God was there, it wasn't capitalized.....ummmm?, what?Tan your hide-- that is said no less then a gazillion times. Why do we keep saying that over and over again? (Okay, maybe because Jenn did a gazillion things to deserve Jack to "tan her hide." But still.)Jack (The sheriff) never has his gun on him. He's always "Reaching for it." Why would the sheriff not be WEARING it, not storing it under the seat, or some other place not on his person?