Review: boring dialogue and too many pointless details
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2013
The mystery plotline was OK, but the hokey storytelling style made for a VERY dull read.  Way too many descriptions of meals, habit of eating candy (chocolate with almonds, which entails a whole eating ritual - I guess it was supposed to be an endearing quirk, but I just found it ridiculous!) and other stupid details like the windbreaker he was wearing, the car he drives, the houses on the block...The scene in which they initially question Angela Nelson drug on forever - I do enjoy witty dialogue over a quick summary of the scene, but the back and forth made me skim ahead (a couple times, actually, because it went on so much longer than it should have!).  There were a lot of corny jokes that I would imagine my great grandfather would have snickered at, but they added nothing to the story. For example, "I...picked Lou up at his apartment as I always do.  Actually, I didn't pick Lou up.  If I had, more than likely it would have resulted in a coronary for one of us and a concussion or a broken back for the other." (Kindle location 159)I will admit that I skimmed through a good portion of the book, but that was no problem as the "finale" included a very detailed confession (the set-up of this scene was just dumb, and the conversation between the two guilty parties sounded like something from a high school play) and Dekker painstakingly details out exactly how it all played out.  Yawn.Don't bother reading this one.