Review: NOT ENOUGH SUSPENSE
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
I don't know if readers gave this book 5 stars because it was a first novel from the author and to give him encouragement but I honestly think this highly overrated. Unlike many readers I don't expect perfect punctuation or grammar when a book obviously hasn't been proof read by an expert.  However, I did notice on one occasion that a whole paragraph had been reproduced later in the book - 'the smell of bread.......'.  What I did find monotonous was the reference to his burgers and pitzas, and am surprised that no American health food enthusiast didn't jump in and mention cholesterol.  It did seem a litle strange that here we have a man so in tune with the wild and yet survives on junk food.  Anyway, the point is that if it was to set the character OK, but it was laboured.  Apart from that, there wasn't enough suspense as early in the novel we knew who was behind the murder and why. I also thought that a cub reporter with evidence he had would certainly have approached his editor so that he could legitimately have obtained evidence for a scoop.