Review: Gross but disappointing.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
I gave this book two stars because I almost enjoyed it. Almost. I kept reading to the end just hoping it would, at some point, make sense. It never does.We start with a serial killer who specifically targets what he sees as 'immoral women'. Only, later on, it turns out he specifically wants to kill the heroine (or her sister) - who in no way fit the profile. With that out of the way the whole premise of the plot falls apart because we don't really know what motivates the killer.If the author edited out the F-bomb the book would lose close to 10% of its page count. I'm not against swearing in a book but does this author honestly expect that among all the characters he presents, scattered across two continents, there is not a single one who can speak without incessantly swearing?Descriptions are vivid to the point of grossness - but that doesn't necessarily hurt in this genre though I'd like to believe there was an actual relationship between that grossness and a gritty plot.The ending is extremely poor almost as though, having reached the most gripping part of the plot, the author got bored and decided to wrap the whole thing up with a last few paragraphs to meet a publishing deadline. After dealing with aspects of the killer's life in excruciating detail the book closes with three whole years packed into as many pages leaving the reader expecting more.