Review: Red Run
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2012
I wanted this book to work out, but it kept getting wordier and wordier with the mental illness issue and the drug abuse issue. There was not one character who had any redeeming characteristics. Everyone in the story had issues from their lives that caught up to them at the time of the story. The author hit on child abuse, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness, abuse of women times two, the issue of a gay teenager coming out of the closet, police stupidity, a protagonist who was an idiot, and an antagonist so far out in left field that he was the least believable character.  Then there was the endless talking with nothing to say. Each character pointed their finger at some other cause for their dilemma without one ounce of responsibility, a murder mystery with no mystery as to the killer. The ending was stupid. The idea that the father and son could help the mother through rehab. All in all a poor excuse for a murder mystery. Rob Cornell will not get me to second novel.