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4.0
'Sleep No More' is a police procedural that had me guessing almost the entire way. I liked it, but the story would shift time without notice and that was a little confusing.
Aden Vanner is a cop with a past. As a former army member in Ireland, he's got a penchance for violence. When he beats a prisoner, this lands him in the sights of Superintendent Morrison of the CIS (aka internal affairs for us Yanks). At the same time, there are a series of revenge killings, going on by a killer known as the Watchman. Morrison likes Vanner for the killings, and even though he's been suspended, Vanner decides he should figure out who's behind it. With Morrison closing in, can Vanner find the real killer? Or is Morrison right to suspect Vanner after all?
I liked it, and I didn't immediately figure out how it was going to go. There were occasional flashbacks that would take place suddenly within a chapter, and that was kind of confusing at first, but I got into the flow of it as the book went along. Not a bad mystery.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Open Road Integrated Media and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
Aden Vanner is a cop with a past. As a former army member in Ireland, he's got a penchance for violence. When he beats a prisoner, this lands him in the sights of Superintendent Morrison of the CIS (aka internal affairs for us Yanks). At the same time, there are a series of revenge killings, going on by a killer known as the Watchman. Morrison likes Vanner for the killings, and even though he's been suspended, Vanner decides he should figure out who's behind it. With Morrison closing in, can Vanner find the real killer? Or is Morrison right to suspect Vanner after all?
I liked it, and I didn't immediately figure out how it was going to go. There were occasional flashbacks that would take place suddenly within a chapter, and that was kind of confusing at first, but I got into the flow of it as the book went along. Not a bad mystery.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Open Road Integrated Media and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
guardian's review
2.0
I'm going to have to stop being sucked in by sales of bundled books from all of the various book purveyor emails. When am I going to learn that these are not going to be the best writers? Why do I keep thinking it's a good way to check out an author I've never heard of?
Slow, plodding, tiresome - where's my Thesaurus? I didn't care about the lead detective, Aden Vanner, which is a problem when he is the main character. He's just another in a long line of go his own way detectives, who had a tough life as a solider, and is now a cop getting into trouble with his superiors all the while solving the crime.
And, of course, we have to have the story of the clever detective being suspected of a string of serial killings. And his boss hates him so much, he won't see that clearly the guy is being set up. How many times is this trope going to be used without any new twist or even decent writing?
There were also editing problems that drove me nuts. Pronouns were misused; characters would just show up without an introduction as if the prior pages in which they first appeared had been cut; there were several places where a paragraph would not make sense in context with the prior ones, again as if prior material was cut and no effort was made to transition the material.
Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly write this genre so much better than anyone else. I'm sticking to their books from now on.
Slow, plodding, tiresome - where's my Thesaurus? I didn't care about the lead detective, Aden Vanner, which is a problem when he is the main character. He's just another in a long line of go his own way detectives, who had a tough life as a solider, and is now a cop getting into trouble with his superiors all the while solving the crime.
And, of course, we have to have the story of the clever detective being suspected of a string of serial killings. And his boss hates him so much, he won't see that clearly the guy is being set up. How many times is this trope going to be used without any new twist or even decent writing?
There were also editing problems that drove me nuts. Pronouns were misused; characters would just show up without an introduction as if the prior pages in which they first appeared had been cut; there were several places where a paragraph would not make sense in context with the prior ones, again as if prior material was cut and no effort was made to transition the material.
Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly write this genre so much better than anyone else. I'm sticking to their books from now on.
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