Review: For mystery lovers that enjoy a laugh
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
Savage Summer is a quick and fun read. I loved the merry band of characters in this novel. Curt Savage, although sarcastic at most times, is witty and great fun. Knowing the male voice had been written by a female author, I didn’t always believe his thought process was truly ‘male’. But then again, men write female characters and get away with it all the time – why not the other way around? The best friend Mike and the crazy neighbor (and her dog) were great fun as well.The ending of this book nearly ruined the story for me. Of course I understand that in a series the ‘big’ mystery of who killed Curt’s fiancée is not going to be solved in the first book of the series. In my humble opinion, however, each individual book in the series should contain at least one major mystery that is solved. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen in this novel. The book ends with hardly anything resolved at all. This can have the disadvantage in – instead of hooking readers for the next novel of the series – upsetting readers enough that they give up on the series.I recommend this book to mystery lovers that enjoy a good laugh.