Review: About 99 cents worth of fiction
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2011
This novel seems to have gone unedited - not even an MSWord grammar check.  Inconsistencies abound (slides a clip into a revolver; buys some fries and then tosses the empty donut bag into the trash, et al.).  Hyperbolic prose that REALLY needs trimming.  I will give the rough outline of the plot a decent score but in the telling, it gets muddled.  Too many Nancy Drew moments for grown-up fiction.  Also, the general tone is a "dark and stormy night."  A theme - small towns have bad things going on under the otherwise placid surface - is not a bad way to go, but elements of the story (the porn, Bobby Lee, et al.) get introduced and then go unresolved.  For 99 cents, fine.