Review: Frustrating and annoying
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2012
Apparently I'm the only one in the world who didn't care for this book. I went into it expecting to like it, because my husband couldn't put it down and laughed the whole time he was reading. The plot was extremely thin. The sheriffs must be the least intelligent people in the world: they mistreated a suspect and mishandled evidence, and several times they arrested and jailed people who had almost no connection to the crimes committed and couldn't possibly have committed them. Then the old stand-by ending, and one of my pet peeves: the murderer explains in careful detail the entire plot, answers whatever questions are tossed out, and confesses. Apparently the murderer is smart enough to plan and carry out several murders and leave undetected. But the murderer doesn't realize that Bubba is buying time for the police to arrive and rescue him, and continues confessing and explaining everything. Really? This pops up in so many books; do criminals really do this? It's a good thing the murderer confessed; with the ignorant law enforcement staff, there's no other way there'd be a conviction. This book was plodding reading at best. When I need escapist fare I can handle mediocrity, but this isn't good escapist fare. I really hate to pan a book, but this really was pretty bad.