Review: Drags a bit but the finish is a huge payoff....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
Technically there's nothing wrong with "Blood Pool." The novel is well written and if there are errors in formatting or syntax, I didn't notice them. Sam is a fairly well sketched character. Her relationship with Mik is a little squishy and quick but they are in an extreme circumstance that makes every moment seem more urgent. Maybe making her a character that never loved her first husband was a bit much but not really an issue within the story-line. Sam trusts all the wrong people and makes all the wrong decisions but that's what people do in thrillers and yet this reader didn't find it more compelling. Then comes the point where the author does something crazy and outstanding brilliant. She ended this story in a way that illuminated all that dragged on before. I won't give away the ending except to tell readers that there is a major twist and it is one that left this reader clapping her hands with glee. Do you like not knowing the characters in a novel? REALLY not knowing them? This is the novel for you.The reality, however, is that you have to read from the start to get to the end. There are points in which we're over informed. As a reader I had to force myself not to scan over some of the Prof storyline and, in the end, I didn't fully get how Sam's role fit in the secondary story-line. Overall, the big payoff is the end and I wish I had time to read again now to relish all the things that I missed in the first reading.