Re: Recent Reads


"Joan in GB-W" <jjkreus@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I also just finished yesterday, Faye Kellerman's standalone historical
mystery "Straight into Darkness" set in Munich in 1929 when the Nazis
were
on the rise but not yet in power. I enjoyed the book but the bad guy was
not
sufficiently introduced early enough and the denoument was a bit too
abrupt
and a bit too convenient. Still I like both the Kellermans work. The
situations in their books exhibit true depravity.
--
Stanley L. Moore


The book "Straight into Darkness" is one of the six the lady I take
grocery
shopping gave me in the last month. The six books she gave me are new, a
few of them having been read once.

The two I have read (in a manner of speaking) thus far are "Burned" by
Carol
Higgins Clark, and "Superstition" by Karen Robards. I did not
particularly
like the Clark book as there were too many threads going at once during
the
tale, any of which would have made a book on its own. The plot was so
contrived as to make the whole thing unbelievable, and one wonders if
Carol
Higgins Clark would be publishing books at all if her mother wasn't who
she
is. And it was slow reading during the early chapters and I found my eyes
closing as I moved it along.

I fared worse with "Superstition." I almost quit reading it on page 5,
then
on page 10, then on page 25, and on page 35 I did quit. I seldom ever
quit
a book that early on, but I did not like the author's style or the story.
I
did skip to the end of the book and read the last 20 pages and liked the
book even less after that. Why is it that authors think the bad guys
should use bad grammar?

I was going to read "Straight into Darkness" next, but after reading
Stanley
's comments I think I will read one of the others. I do like books with a
Nazi/WWII focus and so I will hopefully enjoy it later on.



Don;t let me discourage you. The book was good just I am enamoured of series
characters like Decker and Lazarus. This was a departure for her. The
dedication are two two young GI who fought in WWII, her father and
father-in-law. Except for my caveats it was a fine book. Take care
--
Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad


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