Review: Not Bad
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
I liked a lot of things about this book and some not so much. For the most part Samantha Rialto is a likable character. Quite a bit of humor along with the mystery here and I found myself actually laughing out loud a couple of times. Samantha's tendency to wallow in her pity party bugged me though, and it's the typical 'woman pushes all things good away' formula when it comes to the men/suitors. Samantha's background - cop father - suggest she should be more aware, more astute, more mature, etc. than she is. I really don't think it can all be blamed on an abusive marriage - to another cop. She just doesn't come off as someone raised in that life. I did like the book - and the plot - enough to try the next in this series 'A Bomb in February'...hopefully this next installment will bring about some growth for Samantha. I don't expect her to be super woman, but I do wish she'd act her age. This is not a early twenty year old - I believe she's in her thirties, maybe mid, and is a high school teacher!  A couple of times I had a hard time relating this character to someone in charge of teenagers education. Nevertheless, I did like her enough to cut some slack at the circumstances that sucked her in by no fault of her own.