Review: My first experience with the Fatal Series...and last
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
Perhaps I should have read the earlier books in the series. I was not tuned into the characters and the relationships that had obviously been developed in earlier books but that isn't the author's fault. I would like to have "liked" the main characters more. Sam was overbearing and over-the-top; Nick was too conciliatory; Scotty didn't ring true as a twelve year-old, more like a seven or eight  year-old. As a longtime teacher, I found Sam's method of dealing with bullying to be bullying in itself. But that seems to be the way Sam handled most conflict so maybe it was a legitimate storyline. I also fail to understand why there has to be so much sexual detail in a murder mystery. Understandably, it is good to create background information for the characters but I don't want to read about the main character's sophomoric discussion about anal sex with her big sister. But possibly I have missed much in the current Fifty Shades of Grey era and am completely out of sync with contemporary literary trends. I prefer some things to be left to the imagination. Throughout the whole book I kept waiting for the reason Willie didn't catch the critical ball to become a critical factor. It never showed up, so I suppose it was just one of those things, unexplainable. I don't need to read the previous books in the series. I kept with this one because I hate to leave a book in the middle but I am not willing to invest more of my time in this of series. I gave this book a 2-star rating because I enjoyed the Washington, D. C. locations included, otherwise, it would be a 1-star.