latlansky's review
2.0
*sigh*
I really really wanted this to be great. I read Beat Until Stiff, have read other things by her afterwards, and saw her become a really fantastic writer.
I did not like the main character at all, so that made it really difficult for me to get into the story. The book is full of a couple of my pet peeves - ideas and phrases (how many things in the city of San Francisco are just like a dowager?) being repeated over and over again lest we forget even the most basic of details, and character reactions being too over the top (gripping the phone so hard she broke fingernails, clutching keys so hard the ripped her palm open, sobering up immediately after nearly passing out from drinking).
Anyway, wanted to like it, couldn't get past the way it was written (rolling my eyes pulls me right out of a story), fortunately it had an intriguing enough plot that I made it through.
I really really wanted this to be great. I read Beat Until Stiff, have read other things by her afterwards, and saw her become a really fantastic writer.
I did not like the main character at all, so that made it really difficult for me to get into the story. The book is full of a couple of my pet peeves - ideas and phrases (how many things in the city of San Francisco are just like a dowager?) being repeated over and over again lest we forget even the most basic of details, and character reactions being too over the top (gripping the phone so hard she broke fingernails, clutching keys so hard the ripped her palm open, sobering up immediately after nearly passing out from drinking).
Anyway, wanted to like it, couldn't get past the way it was written (rolling my eyes pulls me right out of a story), fortunately it had an intriguing enough plot that I made it through.
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