A review by ravencrantz
Cold Burn, by Max Allan Collins
1.0
Once again the plot twist is someone is bisexual, and surprise! That someone is dead! And his killer is severely homophobic. Like she was throwing slurs left and right and it was awful. The only other gay character killed himself out of grief and it went into excruciating detail, even more so than the other crime scenes. This book made me sick, and not in a good way. I didn't read this for the representation, I didn't even know it was there. In a way that was worse because I was blindsided with all of this.
The other murder was just dumb. Admittedly, I was stumped on who the killer was for a good portion of the book, but the reasoning behind it was terrible and terribly executed.
I didn't expect these books to be good. I expected to cringe at the cliches and the corniness of them. I didn't expect to cringe at slurs and demonizing of non straight people. I'm not even donating this one. No one should be subjected to this, it's going in the trash.
The other murder was just dumb. Admittedly, I was stumped on who the killer was for a good portion of the book, but the reasoning behind it was terrible and terribly executed.
I didn't expect these books to be good. I expected to cringe at the cliches and the corniness of them. I didn't expect to cringe at slurs and demonizing of non straight people. I'm not even donating this one. No one should be subjected to this, it's going in the trash.