Review: Promising author but needs quite a bit of polishing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2011
This author is talented, but needs quite a bit of polishing. I agree with other reviewers that the English words and phrases are quite distracting for a police procedural set in Los Angeles. Otherwise, the story started out pretty well but soon became somewhat difficult to follow; as the story progressed, it became more and more implausible. The ending was so abrupt as to be very surprising.  It just stopped leaving the reader to wonder if the publisher had omitted a couple of chapters. Character development of the principals was barely satisfactory, and the others were just cardboard characters at best. As the story moved to its climax, it seemed that the author wanted to get it over with, and some really important developments to the story were dealt with summarily and without any real substance.  This of course led to greater implausibility. There were some misspelled words and the like along the way, so better editing and proofing would help in his next effort for which I wish him good luck.