A review by morticia32
Blood Orange, by Susan Wittig Albert

2.0

I love China Bayles, but I didn't love this book. It was ok, but I had a hard time getting into it, and sticking with it. I found the sub-plots distracting, between Ramona and McQuaid.

I frankly felt like McQuaid was an ass

Spoiler

for lying to China, while pretty much the rest of the town knew where he was (and then Tough Cookie wouldn't tell China either? Rude.). And then China let him off the hook, basically blaming herself for his behavior. What?? He promised he wouldn't take dangerous cases/go into Mexico again. He broke that promise and lied about it, and it's your fault because you asked for the promise? No, no, no.

As for Ramona, she's narcissistic and is not a nice person and I really don't care what happens to her.

The main mystery was a good one and I would have enjoyed it much more if it had been focused on instead of going off on tangents.