Review: Ho Hum
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
The beginning of this book is not too bad.  The characters seemed very juvenile for having left school ten years earlier, but I put it down to a typo: two years instead of ten years.  This became less interesting as they appeared to be about early twenties, and a little young even for that.  As the book went on, the quality of the writing deteriorated.  Descriptions of the actions of the characters began to show them as shallow and not clearly delineated.  This lost the author a 5-star rating.  The quality became very cutesy toward the end, with pages and pages of unnecessary descriptions of the relationship between the heroine and her brother and both of them with the detective.  This book may appeal to junior high school students, but I think adults would be not only bored but impatient with the much too prolonged ending.  The author lost a second star for inflicting me with my pet peeve:  any author who uses the word "smirk" more than two times on a page or six times in the entire book loses a star.  No exception.