Dead End

Rating:
Summary: Another Nail Biter!
Review: This is really a pretty awful novel. It begins well: bloody handprint, interesting neighborhood, pretty young mailperson who is the central character. And then it grows. Meyers introduces more characters, most of whom are vaguely defined and about whom the reader cares very little. As a matter of fact, one of the victims--also the best friend of Brette the mailcarrier/heroine--is so obnoxious and mean, her death goes unmourned by anyone, even the characters in the novel!

The novel goes on....and on. The plot gets more twisted and pointless. The characters become more vague and ill-defined. And finally, in the last scene the murderer dies in the swamp much like the one the reader has been mired in throughout the novel.

There are lots of beginnings but the book becomes exactly what it's title implies: a "Dead End".

Rating:
Summary: A Beginner's Book with a Dead End
Review: This is really a pretty awful novel. It begins well: bloody handprint, interesting neighborhood, pretty young mailperson who is the central character. And then it grows. Meyers introduces more characters, most of whom are vaguely defined and about whom the reader cares very little. As a matter of fact, one of the victims--also the best friend of Brette the mailcarrier/heroine--is so obnoxious and mean, her death goes unmourned by anyone, even the characters in the novel!

The novel goes on....and on. The plot gets more twisted and pointless. The characters become more vague and ill-defined. And finally, in the last scene the murderer dies in the swamp much like the one the reader has been mired in throughout the novel.

There are lots of beginnings but the book becomes exactly what it's title implies: a "Dead End".