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Summary: Excellent Start, Great Midpoint, Ending Pretty Good...
Review: This book is the first Goddard book I have read. I was extremely impressed with it's beginning and also through the midpoint. As the book started to formulate an ending, I was still on the edge of my seat, but the actual ending could have been a little better. Not that I did not enjoy the ending, just it was slightly less than par on the beginning through the first 3/4 of the book.I am definitely going to pick up another Goddard book in the very near future, because I do enjoy his writing style.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down.
Review: This is my second review of this book, I am not sure the system got my first one. I just finished it and enjoyed it very much. I did have a hard time with the long first night at the crime scene, it took up a large amount of the book. I also had a hard time with Colin shooting up his official cars and still having a job! But that sort of turned into a running joke in later chapters so I was able to live with it. In short I found it mostly fast paced, interesting, and intertaining. After all intertainment is why I read fiction, and this novel delivered that.
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Summary: Great start, but...
Review: This was the first novel I've read by Mr. Goddard, and I found his writing style to be definitely above average. The pace is fast and the characters reasonably well developed in this murder mystery plus thriller plus sci fi story. Although others may quibble about his in-depth treatment of forensic science in this work, I felt it to have been well done and in keeping with the overall storyline. However, the last half of the book, and particularly the ending scenes, did not live up to the level set for the first half. The conclusion is rushed and falls apart with many unanswered questions (whatever happened to Lieutenant Talbert?) and loose threads. Oh well, I suppose that's what the sequel is for.
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Summary: I can't remember a worse book
Review: While waiting in line at the bookstore, I picked this book up because it 'looked' interesting. I don't think I could have been more wrong. The book just had a bad 'rhythm' to it. In one instance, the author would spend pages and pages talking about the most mundane story plot, and then in the next, you would be flying along, skipping things that left you going 'huh?' The ending, in my opinion, seemed jerky, and very poorly put together. I think the premise of this story was good, but they way it was told just left me confused. The only outstanding thing about this book was how much I was upset that I had bought it.
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