A review by heidinyc
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

I got it b/c it was on the bestseller list at the library, and there's just one word to describe this book - CHEESE. I mean there were couple of places where the character was cheesy funny, but the whole storyline was pretty much crap. It was as if the author started with a thought and just ran with it, without thinking about the overall story. Oh, I just noticed that in a small print on the cover of the book it says, "A Novel By the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author". Maybe that's what the library meant. I love how as soon as an author gets a book on the Bestsellers list, they can forever label all their subsequent books as "written by the #1 Bestselling Author". Kinda like when an actor wins an Oscar, or even gets nominated for one, they are forever advertised as "Oscar-winner", "Oscar nominee"... or my favorite - "5 Time Oscar Nominee" - who basically was never good enough.