Review: Good Time Filler
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2012
This is the second book in the Upstate New York Mafia series.  One assume there will be a third book, since the ending -- like the first book -- leaves a character cliff-hanger which would seem to lead into the next story installment.The books (both first and second) are dark, tragic stories about protagonists and villians who are fairly well drawn -- perhaps a bit stereotypically overdrawn -- who are multifaceted and who therefore suffer greatly.  The characters suffer with their own conflicts of values and their behaviors, and also suffer personal loss, injury, and tragedy -- and perhaps too much.  There are plenty of other reviews that offer insight into the plot basis, so I'll leave that reading to others.For me, the books were a good time waster, and I enjoyed them just barely enough so that if the third book in the series is published -- and available at the same low price as the first two -- I'll probably buy and read it.That having been said -- this isn't great literature, is not very well edited (lots of typos and words misused because "spell checker" let the wrong word through.  It's an okay but, but nothing more than that.