A review by michael5000
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 I use the tag "I read it before I was on Goodreads" and I assume I really did, because my dad had the Travis McGee books around the house and we read them as a matter of course. I use the tag "ironic intent," because although I've always had the sense that the Spencer novels had some merit and loop back to them from time to time, I kind of suspected that the McGee books would be trashier and pulpier and a bit antediluvian. But this one, anyway, is a pretty solid piece of genre fiction. It shows its age and shortcomings, as most of us products of 1968 do at this point, but it is not perhaps entirely unserviceable still. I might return for more McGee.