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qu33nofbookz's review against another edition
1.0
This book was written in 1986/7 and it did not age well at all. It would have been strange even for the time it was written. This book needed some heavy editing, it's a mess in a lot of places. Location and time changes happen within the same paragraph from one sentence to another without any segway and it's confusing. There are random bits about fishing and fish tackle info dumps thrown in higgledy-piggledy at odd points. Also, no one in this book really works despite being under 30.
The main 'hero' and 'heroine' leave a lot to be desired and I found myself constantly annoyed with them. All the other characters are actually caricatures, just bits and pieces of things without any depth or emotion they are just there, and they do things that make other things happen and the plot moves on but there is no sense of emersion or emotion into what is going on. Stuff just happens but what do we care? It would have made a great film ala early Bond, very over the top, tongue in cheek to be made fun of with (but with no real laughs to be had) zero realism, but alas as a story... this book leaves a lot to be desired.
However at some point, I read a book quite a bit further along in this series and I must have enjoyed it since I gave it 3 stars (I have no memory of it or what it was about at all), so maybe the author gets better as he goes.
The main 'hero' and 'heroine' leave a lot to be desired and I found myself constantly annoyed with them. All the other characters are actually caricatures, just bits and pieces of things without any depth or emotion they are just there, and they do things that make other things happen and the plot moves on but there is no sense of emersion or emotion into what is going on. Stuff just happens but what do we care? It would have made a great film ala early Bond, very over the top, tongue in cheek to be made fun of with (but with no real laughs to be had) zero realism, but alas as a story... this book leaves a lot to be desired.
However at some point, I read a book quite a bit further along in this series and I must have enjoyed it since I gave it 3 stars (I have no memory of it or what it was about at all), so maybe the author gets better as he goes.
jgoalder's review against another edition
Excellent read, characters are well developed and interesting because of their flaws.
jessyhere's review against another edition
2.0
The pacing was a little choppy. Movements from one scene to the next were hard to follow. The characters were just meh. It was interesting in that it was set in Key Largo, and knowing all the places that were mentioned. And the intrigues were mildly entertaining. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it.
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