A review by readinggrrl
The Burglar by Thomas Perry
3.0
When you are a burglar you never know what you are walking into but Elle is good at what she does. Unfortunately this time Elle walks into a scene that she is likely not to forget. Three people in the bed all dead of a gunshot to the head and a video camera running filming it all.
The beginning of this book kept me very interested, then as Elle decides to play detective things go a little stale. She starts making mistakes, and her abilities take on a superhero quality that didn't really seem to fit. The ending just left me a bit cold it was so abrupt.
There are definitely pieces of this book that were really good and others that just jumped the shark so hard it was almost hard to keep reading. The death of someone Elle knows barely makes a blip on her emotional radar for more that a few days. I understand needing to be detached as a burglar but this was a bit much. There were other things like this that left me unable to give this book a better rating.
Overall this is a brain candy thriller that isn't that sweet and doesn't last that long.
The beginning of this book kept me very interested, then as Elle decides to play detective things go a little stale. She starts making mistakes, and her abilities take on a superhero quality that didn't really seem to fit. The ending just left me a bit cold it was so abrupt.
There are definitely pieces of this book that were really good and others that just jumped the shark so hard it was almost hard to keep reading. The death of someone Elle knows barely makes a blip on her emotional radar for more that a few days. I understand needing to be detached as a burglar but this was a bit much. There were other things like this that left me unable to give this book a better rating.
Overall this is a brain candy thriller that isn't that sweet and doesn't last that long.