After Delores

Rating:
Summary: Original & fun crime fiction
Review: I read a lot of crime fiction, usually of the intense George Pelecanos/Dennis Lehane/Michael Connelly variety. I read this one several years ago on a recommendation. I found it different from anything else I've read. Funny without being cutesy, gritty in its own way without being overbearingly so. And how many novels are set (a little bit, anyway) in East Newark NJ, a town of about eight square blocks across the Passaic River from Newark? I love that attention to detail. I still remember the ending vividly, which is more than I can say for a lot of crime novels.

Rating:
Summary: Fast reading, but not the best I've read
Review: Some might find this little novel "hilarious". I found it mildly amusing and somewhat contrived. The heroine is believable only if you place her age in her early 20s. The characters are shallow, and the reader is left knowing almost nothing about them except their sexual orientation. This book was given to me. Having read it, I would not recommend it for purchase. There is a lot of excellent lesbian/gay fiction out there. Only when you've finished many of them--fiction and non-fiction--would I recommend picking up this volume.

Rating:
Summary: Fast reading, but not the best I've read
Review: Some might find this little novel "hilarious". I found it mildly amusing and somewhat contrived. The heroine is believable only if you place her age in her early 20s. The characters are shallow, and the reader is left knowing almost nothing about them except their sexual orientation. This book was given to me. Having read it, I would not recommend it for purchase. There is a lot of excellent lesbian/gay fiction out there. Only when you've finished many of them--fiction and non-fiction--would I recommend picking up this volume.