Review: Bad Title Choice
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
Kate, who appears to be in her 50's based on her description that she's a couple of decades older than Mimi who's in her 30's, takes a cruise vacation to relax from her duties as full time caregiver to her wheelchair bound mother. She meets Tom right away on the shuttle bus to the cruise. He tries to strike up a conversation with her but she tells him she wants to sleep. Onboard the ship before it departs, Tom buys her a drink and they chat for awhile before she gets away from him. He shows up again when she's found a lounge chair to lie on in the Promenade Deck. It becomes puzzling her open hostility towards Tom. She snarls at him for no apparent reason other than she's ticked off that he keeps showing up wherever she is. There was no build up to her hostility toward him. The only conversations he'd had with her were quite pleasant and didn't come off as coming on too strong.One of Kate's tablemates, Brett, is an attractive man. He seems more interested in Mimi, who is married to the elderly Rodney. Brett and Kate do hit it off and she's subjected to taunts from Tom which is the first time that there is any conflict between them, other than what is going on in Kate's head.Its a good short story, fast moving, well developed characters. One of these books that you don't want to put down and just want to keep reading it to find out what happens. I liked it. The main thing I didn't like about this book is the title - Murder on the High Seas but I suppose it makes a better title than Attempted Murder in Bermuda. The thing is when I read a murder mystery, especially when the word murder is in the title, I expect there to be a murder somewhere in the book. A little deceptive especially when it looked like just my kind of a book - a murder mystery taking place on a cruise ship heading to Bermuda. If the book had lived up to its title I'd have given it 5*. Other than the lack of the murder it was a fun read.