Review: When good books go bad...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2014
This book was both pretty good and totally awful. The story was interesting and could have been a great book so I will start with the positives:The plot was interesting. The scenario was interesting. The mystery was well developed. It kept my interest. I did finish the book despite getting very annoyed.But there were multiple problems (some spoilers follow):1) graphic sex2) some graphic violence3) vivid depiction of child abuse4) words misused5) bad grammar6) too many extraneous characters and side story lines7) way too much description of driving8) An abrupt and bizarre end1) I don't mind some sex. This was just too graphic and there was way too much. I don't care if people are gay or straight. I just don't want to read about throbbing and spewing and moaning and panting. Stop it.2) Not that disturbing to me but I know some readers dislike it3) The child abuse was in forcing the child to witness the graphic sex among other things so a double whammy.4) I kept getting distracted and then more and more irritated by the wrong word being used. I wish I'd made note of some of them but I never think to do that. It's not so bad in the first half of the book but the further you get in, the worse it gets.5) As above, distracting and worse in the 2nd half of the book.6) One of the FBI agents who comes in late to the policing part and really does nothing to change the case, not only do we have to have all the details of his divorce, his relationship with his child and his ex wife and his moving van and his decisions on what to bring and what to leave behind as he moves, his graduation from the FBI academy, his history with his mentor, but then get stupidly gets drugged on a stake out and ends up having, you guessed it, graphic gay sex even tho he's straight. The other FBI agent, the profiler... does no profiling and does not have anything to do with the resolution. Why the heck did we bring in the FBI? They didn't contribute at all but took up a HUGE number of pages.The main character's ex husband/daughter/parents... completely pointless particularly an episode where the daughter goes missing from school only to have been picked up by her dad. Why did we bother with this sideline? Ex is abusive and yet when cop realizes the daughter is with him, she's like.. oh, that's ok then and goes back to business as usual. What was the point?7) I don't need to know every turn, every step, everything they see as they are going along. Really, I don't need a tour of every city. Just say they got in the car and arrived x amount of time later. I don't really need to be reading mapquest.8) I thought something was wrong with my kindle the way the story ends. It just stops right mid-conversation. I was so confused!I would not recommend it or probably read any further titles by this author.