Review: Two Books in One?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
I feel as if I am reviewing two separate and distinct books that just happened to have many of the same characters.  The first book seemed to be about a guy with no particular job or goal in life except when he needed to replenish his bank account enough to stock the fridge with more steaks and beers.  At one point he finds a teenage girl on the beach who is exceedingly drunk.  So drunk that he takes her to his home and puts her to bed twice changing her clothes and she being naked.  Then we zoom back to the present day where  he knocks up his girlfriend and the rest of the first book is all about arguing both sides of the abortion/pro-life/pro-choice issue. As we read about the issue(s) involved this guy gets shot at and delivered a package of blood and tissue representative of an aborted fetus.  At no time does he ever call the police.  He calls his drinking buddy.  The drunk teenage girl disappears and her mother comes to this guy requesting that he find her.  He has pissed off the pregnant girlfriend who tosses him out on his ear, and the missing teen is killed in a traffic accident,  so he decides to go undercover as a humble hayseed who travels to where the girl was killed to get the real story. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.Now we are at book two where humble hayseed gets himself hired as a handyman at a convent where something shady is going on.  The convent just happens to take care of pregnant teens and a mysterious black limo appears at night and pregnant teens give birth but their babies seem to disappear.  I'm sure you can figure out the rest.The book(s) isn't awful, but the author appears to have written two different books -- one that needed a beginning and one that needed an ending so he stuck them together and voila.And although I have no problem with stretching the believability scale when reading fiction, I gotta tell ya I don't believe a man is going to pick a drunk out of her gourd teenage girl and have her naked twice in his bed but nothing happens.  No man is that low on testosterone or that saintly.  What guy would be stupid enough to set himself up for a rape accusation.  Then he gets shot at and does nothing but spackle the holes in the wall?If you have time to kill and $2.99 you can't decide how else to spend go for it. After all, you won't always get two books for the price of one.