A review by ccgwalt
Killjoy by Julie Garwood

3.0

Parts of this book are really good. It gets off to a slow start, but picks up around Chapter 7 (approximate page 100). From there to almost the end of the book, it was generally well-paced and exciting. The dialog was well-done and often amusing, the characters likable, and the suspense plot was interesting. However, even then a few things happen "off camera" that should have been experienced in real time by the reader, while other scenes are detailed more than they needed to be. Around Chapter 37 the book derailed for me, skipping chunks of the story which we find out about in retrospect. It felt like the author suddenly needed to finish the book quickly. I wanted to see the capture of the various accomplices and not read summaries about it after the fact. I'd also like to know what happened with Jilly and would've appreciated more details in the epilogue.