Review: Needed to be much longer
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
A book that needed to be much longer, The Lotus Keeper was entertaining and mind catching from the beginning.  You would expect a book like this to be filled with the expected emotions of child sex-slavery, but the plot is balanced well with the stories and expresses the emotions of those who are trying to fight against it.  Yes, the slavery is out there, it's big and bad and it must be stopped, but these people doing what they do have families and histories of their own.  It is a very good look at some of the characters.I was somewhat thrown at the random religious thoughts that were nudged in, as if the author was attempting to advertise their beliefs by having a character say something random about God.  It wasn't totally out of place, people do occasionally make a reference to what they believe in their heart, as something being a sign or whatever, but the times this happened in the book seemed overly arranged somehow.  I can't really put a finger on it, but perhaps it was just that so much of the rest of the book was expertly written and seamlessly flowed for me that this was a little jarring.My only other concern was how one of the characters ended up going into the undercover unit.  He went from wanting money, money, money to master undercover agent almost instantly.  Only because there had been an attempt on his life.  Maybe I missed something in the transition that would have made that sharp change make sense, but it felt like he just blinked his eyes and said to himself, "Okay, job change." as if it were nothing.This book captures the emotions and difficulties of trying to trap the worst of the bad guys, but it manages to do so without overly wording itself.  Descriptions are to the point, but beautiful at the same time, such as when you find a man who loves to graph things to explain himself and you can instantly visualize the piles of papers he had brought with him to his meeting.An enjoyable read for anyone who loves to see the really bad guys go down.Note: Though this book was a free gift from the author, the content of my review was in no way influenced by the gifting. The book speaks for itself and my review would have been worded just this way even if I'd gone out and bought it. I also give bonus points for Text To Speech enabling on Kindle format.... but that also wasn't a factor in the above review.