Review: Definitely Worth the Price: I Paid $0
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2012
I had a hard time slogging through this one.Plot holes so big you can drive a 747 Jet through them.1. A retired police officer is called in to help solve a crime. Yet, he seems to contribute little or nothing to the investigation. There is no explanation about how his sudden return to the squad room is squared within the bureaucracy.Let's face it: civilians do not simply hang-around murder investigations. He would have to be hired as a consultant, but there is no mention of this. He simply steps into the story, with no comment by senior officers.2. Throughout the novel, which appears to occur in the course of a day or two, he wanders countless times back to the house of the so-called witch with unclear magical abilities. Sometimes even he doesn't know why he is returning.3. The ending comes out of nowhere and does not make sense within the parameters of the world-paradigm created by the author.4. Many misspellings.5. Repetitive dialogue. This is the result of the little traits that are used to distinguish each character, which are rather boring. Charlie doesn't like new technology; his partner Carlos is a chow-hound and sloppy eater; Spinelli, the new detective on the block, is the techno whiz-kid.The characters do not grow beyond these superficial eccentricities, which are repeated endlessly.I finished several books before finally, sigh, completing this one only to be disappointed by the disjointed denouement.My hat's off to the author for making her work available for free. It takes guts and hard work to be a writer, and I salute the willingness to put one's creative efforts out there. I truly wish I had something nicer to say.