Review: Too "quirky" for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
I really don't like books where the author thinks it is really cute to talk in his own language. This author's language is "quirky" descriptions of styles from the 1960's to 1990's. The characters never shut up and what they say doesn't make sense unless you stop and analyse each phrase. I'm only 11% into the story, and I want to stop reading it. I'm sure there are people who don't mind all the retro references; my son and husband love retro cars so I understand the character's passion for them. But most of the rest is beyond me--and I lived through the eras in question.If you take out all the retro chatter it is a pretty simple story. The hero (misfit with a passion for aged styles) raised in a dysfunctional family has a cousin who he is very close to. The cousin gets in trouble and the hero helps him out. Cousin has to lay low for awhile because he has a record and will end up in jail if he is found. Friend of the cousin gets killed and he wants to find who did it. (that part is from other reviewers.) Hero must come out of it all right, he appears to be in the next book.If the characters would just shut up and get on with the story I could probably enjoy it, but I didn't like shag carpet when I had it. Booze, drugs, and fighting were not part of my life and I wasn't friends with those people then, I don't want to relate to them now.