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dodgson's review against another edition
3.0
This came highly recommended, so I gave it all my benefit-of-doubt. But despite its appealing writing style, it just has way too many characters and complex side plots. Once it more or less settled on a single narrative track, the last 20% was pretty enjoyable!
staticdisplay's review against another edition
4.0
I read this short series backwards. I found the second book more chaotic and frenetic, so I was over-prepared for book #1. I appreciate Dufresne as a writer for creating a character who is so removed from the violence and depravity of the content of the book (the story is incredibly dark, with serial murder, dismemberment, rape, cannibalism, organized crime, etc); Wylie manages to remain fussy and prim even as he gets entangled in increasingly violent and life-threatening situations (he repeatedly files written complaints). I enjoy the madcap way the story unspools, with all of the many characters and (perhaps) excessive backstory and personal details about people who appear only once. it's really a lot to cover in relatively a short novel. I'm sad there's only 2 books in this series.
jenno's review against another edition
2.0
Finally finished it. This took me way too long to read and I didn't really enjoy it. It was recommended to me by a friend after I said that I wanted to read some good crime. Maybe it's me, since I've been reading scary, action packed and bloody Scandinavian crime, that I can't really connet with a kind of slow crime novel set in Florida. I also found it to be a tad predictable, which for me is a no no. Anyway it's over now. *shrugs my shoulders and moves on*
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