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Summary: Worth The Time: Time Stand Still by John Misak
Review: Private Investigator Darren Camponi is barely hanging on business wise and he could use some decent paying clients. His love life is going down in flames yet again and his mother wants to know why he keeps missing the mandatory Sunday dinner. But all that and other personal problems pale in comparison when he gets himself involved in a missing person's case of strange proportions.The missing person is Jason Caulfield according to Mike Holmes who runs his own investigative company. Jason may have come home to his parent's house and since Darren is the nearest to Jason's home, Mike is requesting Darren's help in locating Jason and will pass on part of his fee for Darren's help. In a strange coincidence, Darren knew Jason years ago as an often picked upon nerd in High School. Mike claims not to have known this fact and other details of the case just don't sound right to Darren. But, Mike has never misled him before and that along with the promise of decent money for what should be a simple enough deal, convinces Darren to take the case and assist. The case becomes steadily more difficult and complicated as Darren learns that Mike wasn't telling him everything and that other forces are serious about recovering Jason and his knowledge one way or the other. Apparently, Jason was working on the concept of time travel and may have found a way to make it happen but Jason needs help. As the body count climbs, Darren begins to identify some of the players but with knowledge of them, they also learn of him and retaliation comes in an unexpected ways. While overall enjoyable, the major problem with this novel is the extremely anticlimactic ending. After working through, at times overwritten dialogue and narration in the 320-page novel, the ending was very disappointing and weak. This ending is not the "bang" ending one would have expected and weakens the overall enjoyment of what had been a fairly interesting, enjoyable novel. Despite that fact, this novel does feature good writing, pacing, interesting ideas and strong character development. It just needs a better ending.
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Summary: Somewhat Disappointing
Review: The author takes approximately 110 pages to get to the meat of the book, which is the protagonist's trip into the past. While I realize that plot lines do require time to set up, John Misak overdoes it here with far too much set-up detail. Once the story really gets going, however, it's a pleasant read.
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Summary: Time stand still
Review: This book was excellent. It was the second book I have read by John Misak. The first book Soft Case was great expecially since it was his first. This is his second book and it was riveting! I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a great book to read. I feel like I know the characters. Mr. Misak makes the characters come alive!
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Summary: Hire an editor!
Review: Time Stand Still is a fun, easy read. Not very deep or well developed, but fairly entertaining. What was aggravating about the book was the fact that there were numerous errors: misspellings, grammatical mistakes, mix-ups in character names, and even a mix-up in time zones. (No, the latter had nothing to do with time travel!) Mr. Misak should hire an editor!
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Summary: At times interesting...
Review: Time Stand Still was OK, but just that, OK. At times it comes across very amateurish with included details that had nothing to do with the story and seem to be have been included strictly as filler. I found the numerous typos very distracting and could have easily been handled by better editing. There is no real hard science here, unless the use of the term "quantum computer" constitutes science. One goes through two-thirds into the book before any time traveling takes place, but the mix of detective work and time travel was an interesting twist.
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Summary: At times interesting...
Review: Time Stand Still was OK, but just that, OK. At times it comes across very amateurish with included details that had nothing to do with the story and seem to be have been included strictly as filler. I found the numerous typos very distracting and could have easily been handled by better editing. There is no real hard science here, unless the use of the term "quantum computer" constitutes science. One goes through two-thirds into the book before any time traveling takes place, but the mix of detective work and time travel was an interesting twist.
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