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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
I really enjoy Lisa Scottoline, but I found this one hard to believe.
the "need" to keep things from each other in this book makes me a little crazy. just communicate!
I'm still a bit confused about exactly what transpired the night of the hit and run accident. Scottoline tried to wrap this all up in three short chapters at the end of the read. Some of it makes sense and some of it doesn't. Overall, this was just OK.
Good story that made you want to keep reading and fairly predictable with a few turns that made you think "I didn't see that coming"
This made for an interesting book club discussion but reading it was only okay. There were lots of twists but not a lot of tension to keep them more than interesting and some were somewhat hard to believe. The characters were both dumb at times - making bad decision after another - and ultra smart - putting together clues that were unrelated to "solve" the mystery - which made them somewhat unbelievable. This one goes in the category of an easy beach read when you don't want something heavy.
I’m not sure how I feel about this one. The first half made cringe. However, I wanted to see how it ended. I feel the last half, while full of twists and turns, was just too many things all at once.
I don’t feel like it was a waste of my time reading it, but I wouldn’t tell anyone they MUST read this one.
I don’t feel like it was a waste of my time reading it, but I wouldn’t tell anyone they MUST read this one.
Once again Scottoline delivers a good mystery. A quick and enjoyable read.
This was kind of a 3 1/2 Star book. It started slow, so slow, slow through the whole first half. (Did I mention it was slow) but really picked up and kept the action going through the end. You have to suspend disbelief a little to enjoy it, but I think that’s true for most thrillers.
This book is not something I would normally read but now that I have, I have no regrets. Scottoline has created a family drama which escalates and escalates until you can't quite take the tension anymore!
An estranged father and son are driving when the son hits a runner. The story grows from there as this duo do their utmost to keep this secret hidden. What I liked best were the conversations. They are fast-paced and real and are what keeps you reading.
The drama and story did get a bit over the top but I enjoyed the journey nonetheless.
An estranged father and son are driving when the son hits a runner. The story grows from there as this duo do their utmost to keep this secret hidden. What I liked best were the conversations. They are fast-paced and real and are what keeps you reading.
The drama and story did get a bit over the top but I enjoyed the journey nonetheless.
I consider Scottoline kind of a cross between literary fiction and what I term "grocery store" novels. This is one such novel. Fairly well-written, but the plot (and plot twists) are just a little too unbelievable at times. I don't mind suspending disbelief, but this was pushing it. Also, maybe attorneys in Pennsylvania go about reciting exact code sections, while also saying "Pennsylvania Code Annotated Section Three Point Eight..," and maybe they always describe their crimes by "felony in the ___ degree." I'm not sure. But here in Tennessee, we talk like normal people. If we're even going to bother reciting a statute to a layperson, we're going to use the shorthand (TCA, for example), and we're just going to say "Assault 1" or "first degree battery" or whatever, not weird, fancy schmancy talk. So I guess that was a pet peeve. Still, overall, I kept reading. I wanted to know what happened, and aside from the dialogue noted above, the writing was good.