Review: Waste of time
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
Did you see "The Little Mermaid"?  When Ariel has gotten her legs and the little sea creature (trying to remember, was it a crab?) is saying "something's different about you, no no don't tell me, let me guess" and there is Ariel with her legs, the humor comes from something so obvious and the crab is oblivious.  This book is like that.  From the first robbery it is apparent how it was done and soon after that it is obvious who is doing it.  The humor comes from the fact that any reader can figure it out immediately and it is supposed to be suspenseful.There is the requisite lawman who makes Barney Fife look intelligent and competent.  It turns out he may be the smartest man in town.  Not that he is any smarter than he appears but the heroine and other characters are apparently supposed to be quirky and funny but they just come across as dumb.  The heorine is overweight and frizzy haired and wears coveralls all the time and could not walk through an empty room without bumping into something.  But we keep hearing how she is now being pursued by the best looking man in the world, being the widow of his look alike brother.  Her nonstop eating of junk food and sweets actually gave me an upset stomach.  And she qualifies as the most ineffective mother I've read about in a long time.The bottom line is that the intentional funny parts of this story come across as stupid and annoying and the only funny part is unintentional.  If you have something else to read, read it.  If you are currently w/o any other viable reading material, this is not the worst book I've read.  If you are put off by the idea that it is a Christian romance mystery, don't worry, that is an insignificant part of the story, basically every once in a while they go to church.