Review: Four stars for the short story - two for adding fluff to make if seem like it was worth the price
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
I admit I don't look at the number of pages before I buy a book, especially when I like the author, but candidly this weighed in at a paltry 125 pages and if you have read the author's previous books, you know she is fairly economical with her words. Well this one takes a nice (if a bit overpriced) short story and adds so much fluff that my impression was the author had some sort of deadline and minimum word count so fill it up with rehashing thoughts about her boyfriend, life, whatever. Funny thing is that the author does this in her same economical way. The protagonist and her partner run all over Arizona and Las Vegas in excruciating detail (we got the Vic was a pathological liar pretty early on) and then when they run out of leads the readers are faced with a long description of how they filled their time with other cases until a silly pro ported coincidence puts everyone in the right place at the right time.There are no gaffs or inconsistencies in the story, just a lot of hubris. Charge $.99 and I'm not complaining, but charging the same price for this novella that she did for her thee full novels is kinda shameless. I'm not cheap, but I expect value for my hard earned dollar. Again, I realize the page count is provided, but if the story had not been filled with fluff that had nothing to do with the plot, I wouldn't complain.