Review: Thriller
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2011
Hunting Delilah is a nice little action/suspense novel that will keep you turning pages long after you should put it down and go to bed.Delilah is a professional criminal. Her specialties are con games, driving and theft (B & E). She's in Florida for a proposed job, which she bows out of because there are too many risks and holes in the plan. But she needs the money for her daughter's health issues, so she decides to do a bit of breaking and entering so her trip isn't wasted. Unfortunately she breaks into the wrong house, unmasking a serial killer, and becomes his new target.The story is well written grammatically, with just a few issues here and there (such as "reigning" instead of "reining" and "undo" instead of "undue") that don't interrupt the flow significantly. The action and tension level is high and draws the reader in. But there are also some things that are not so well done. Most of the characters seen a bit two-dimensional, there's not enough development to really understand all of their motivation. A little more backstory on why Delilah is a thief would help. More information on her relationship with Jake, her daughter's father, would also help flesh out the story. And then there's the daughter's illness, Negli's Aplastic Anemia, which is apparently so rare that when you do an Internet search you get next to nothing back, although one of the more frequent hits is a James Patterson book. Hmmmm. From what I could find and given Delilah's daughter's young age, it is implied that her case is genetic - which given the rarity of the disease and the mixed racial and cultural ancestry of the parents is next to impossible.If you like to read just for the adventure, action and suspense, then you will like this book a lot. If plot holes bother you, then you might find this lacking a bit.