Review: A Clever Idea Gone Wrong
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2012
Temporary Duty has a few good points. First and foremost it was a clever idea. But as the book went on it became more and more disjointed and lacked the sinews to keep the joints together. It was like a bunch of short stories were put together which came out of the same milieu but with no thought to how they fit with each other. The character development was erratic, and sometimes the protagonists seemed to be entirely different people in one of the stories versus the other. On the whole I would say this book lacked either a good editor or beta readers to tell Ric Locke when he needed to do more work.