bhalpin's review
3.0
Pretty decent LA Noir, though ultimately for me the execution didn't live up to the idea. Perhaps I was expecting more celebrity sleaze. (I mean, there is some, but it doesn't define the action of the book in the way the blurb suggested it would.) No big complaints; it just didn't grab me for whatever reason, even though the protagonist is compelling and the plot features twists I didn't see coming.
BUT--this is incomprehensible because the author is American, but I guess they made the ebook from the British edition or something because you've got all these British spellings that make no sense in first-person narration by an American character. Every time Nina mentioned a "cheque" (or worse yet, "pay-cheque") or a "tyre," it pulled me out of the story. This is a publisher problem rather than an author problem, and it's a shame nobody cared enough to fix this.
BUT--this is incomprehensible because the author is American, but I guess they made the ebook from the British edition or something because you've got all these British spellings that make no sense in first-person narration by an American character. Every time Nina mentioned a "cheque" (or worse yet, "pay-cheque") or a "tyre," it pulled me out of the story. This is a publisher problem rather than an author problem, and it's a shame nobody cared enough to fix this.
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