Review: Tedious
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
I wanted to stop reading after the first chapter, because it wasn't logical and then just skipped to a few months later. Granted, I like clues and some work as to how a mystery is solved, so starting the book with the main character, Adam just "knowing" basically just told me that Adam has a gift of "knowing" things. I kept reading thinking maybe the crime in the first chapter that we not only knew anything about might have some relevance later in the book. No such luck.Once Adam relocates to hide his special ability of "knowing" things, I thought that maybe we'd get some interesting story about how he uses his abilities without being discovered, but that didn't happen either. Instead when a murder happens he runs to the police station and tells the chief, who basically is overjoyed and accepting and says to have at it.So, I read on and look for clues in the tedious sappy way Adam acclimates to the town and finally in the last pages, the murder is finally solved, not because of any clues, but because Adam "knows". It turns out to be NO ONE we've ever heard of and it doesn't even make sense. I don't get why the murderer would move to town, set up shop and wait for the opportunity to kill and then just stick around like nothing happened.So, I was disappointed all around.As for the dog.... he didn't eat the airplane, of course. The dog, Bagel, also has special skills (unbelievable skills). The only real purpose of the dog in my opinion was as a setting for the airplane that the dog pulled from the sky. Afterwards the airplane exploded and bystanders said "The dog ate the airplane!". Adam wouldn't have been there had he not been exercising Bagel, who he inherited from his mother. The exploding airplane led him to the guy who was later murdered -- not by airplane, of course.I would actually recommend this for a 10 to 12 year old. Otherwise.... skip it.