Review: Too many characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I was excited about this book because I love stories set in foreign locales but the story needs to make sense. This one is very confusing with enough characters for three books!! Seriously, I had to keep going back to see who was who.Anyway, Dr. Marin Ryan and her billionaire boyfriend, John Hunter have to track down a group of pirates because a friend of theirs has been murdered. The chase begins in Genoa, moves to Capri then to New York, Hawai'i, Geneva and back to Capri. (Yeah, I'm dizzy too.) All on a private jet. There are eight, nine or 12 murders along the way and, after a while, it doesn't even matter at all because you just want it to end.  Getting to the end of this mess was my only goal. (The pirates part is just silly but you get it soon enough.)The story is interesting at the beginning but it deteriorates into a confusing pile of bad guys, police. FBI, Italian police, an ambassador from somewhere never mentioned and an Irish guy who isn't. But I managed to muddle through to the end and was rewarded with the most stupid ending ever.The writing is quite bad with too many descriptive words and some cringe worthy spelling errors (a picture is "hung" while a person is "hanged" but the authors don't seem to know that rule).  And all of the killing . . . WHY?? There is just too much.  I don't recommend this book, unless you get it for free as I did. I was so sure this would be a good series that my plan was to buy all of the other books. Well, I've saved a few bucks because I won't put myself through this torture again.