A review by eve_boobies
Maniacal, by C.M. Sutter
2.0
That was kinda dumb. Like, the whole plot and characters were meh to begin with but crikey.
All the characters, Jade especially, seemed incompetent. She could never do anything for herself, it was always “let’s ask the lieutenant”. Plus, I felt like no actual detective work went on, everything just popped out of thin air and it felt like there was absolutely no logical reasoning to come to whatever conclusion they did.
Not to mention I knew who the murderer was from the second time he was mentioned. Like, I was hoping for awhile that it was just going to be a red herring, but no, they really did make him the murderer. The author could have been subtle, only giving brief hints, but instead they just gave weird, out of place bits of information that automatically made you go “oh, that’s gonna be relevant later in regards to the murders”.
Honestly, this just wasn’t all that great. I thought it was written well enough (apart from some of the awkwardness in dialogue and shit coming out of thin air) but this really did nothing for me apart from cause anger.
All the characters, Jade especially, seemed incompetent. She could never do anything for herself, it was always “let’s ask the lieutenant”. Plus, I felt like no actual detective work went on, everything just popped out of thin air and it felt like there was absolutely no logical reasoning to come to whatever conclusion they did.
Not to mention I knew who the murderer was from the second time he was mentioned. Like, I was hoping for awhile that it was just going to be a red herring, but no, they really did make him the murderer. The author could have been subtle, only giving brief hints, but instead they just gave weird, out of place bits of information that automatically made you go “oh, that’s gonna be relevant later in regards to the murders”.
Honestly, this just wasn’t all that great. I thought it was written well enough (apart from some of the awkwardness in dialogue and shit coming out of thin air) but this really did nothing for me apart from cause anger.