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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
I have always been a fan of Thomas Perry so I was pleased when Net Galley offered an advance copy of Perry's most recent book. I didn't think it measured up to the previous titles of his I enjoyed. There's no mystery. We know the why, how, what and where of the bad guys and the same for the heroine who would appear to have almost superwoman capabilities.
Leah, the police lieutenant, "hired" (it's all supposed to be off the books) is given virtually unlimited funds (which she spends wisely, mind you) to murder (there is no other word for it) a bunch of convicts who had engineered a vast prison break and then had savaged the local community. Her motives appear to be focused on revenge for the killing of her married lover (the adultery was OK because his wife was in a wheelchair) during a shootout with the bad guys following the breakout.
That she's more than competent at tracking down the scoundrels is never at issue, and her techniques flawless and filled with mounds of luck. It goes without saying she is athletic, tall, blonde and beautiful and probably eats right most of the time.
It's a perfect book for a plane ride: distracting enough but not so much that drifting off once in a while would be bothersome to its rather wrinkled flow.
My thanks to Net Galley
Leah, the police lieutenant, "hired" (it's all supposed to be off the books) is given virtually unlimited funds (which she spends wisely, mind you) to murder (there is no other word for it) a bunch of convicts who had engineered a vast prison break and then had savaged the local community. Her motives appear to be focused on revenge for the killing of her married lover (the adultery was OK because his wife was in a wheelchair) during a shootout with the bad guys following the breakout.
That she's more than competent at tracking down the scoundrels is never at issue, and her techniques flawless and filled with mounds of luck. It goes without saying she is athletic, tall, blonde and beautiful and probably eats right most of the time.
It's a perfect book for a plane ride: distracting enough but not so much that drifting off once in a while would be bothersome to its rather wrinkled flow.
My thanks to Net Galley
Not my cup of tea, I DFNed at 30% as I found the plot a bit over my suspension of belief level and couldn't connect to the characters.
It's well written but I found the style of writing a bit too dry.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
It's well written but I found the style of writing a bit too dry.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
Weldonville, Colorado is a very small town. Most citizens are employed by the federal penitentiary outside the town, originally designed to hold white collar criminals. Over the course of a few years, some very bad men have plotted to get themselves transferred to Weldonville. Twelve men lead a prison break and the rampage that follows destroys the town. Two years later, Leah Hawkins takes a leave of absence from the Weldonville police. She is going on her own rampage, to find and destroy the 12 men who were responsible for the prison break. Quite an interesting plot device, my major complaint is that Leah's character is never fully developed. She lost a loved one that night, but it seems superficial (to me). Perry is always an engaging writer, but this was not one of his best.
A Small Town by Thomas Perry is a fictional tale where twelve violent prison inmates orchestrate a large scale prison break out that leads to the decimation of the nearby town Weldonville when over 1,000 prison inmates run amok.
In the aftermath, two years after the twelve behind the break out can't be located by authorities, Weldonville police officer Leah Hawkins then decides to hunt down the masterminds behind this rampage and send them off to the place they belong.
Unfortunately for this reader, the implausibilities within A Small Town required too much escape from reality to work and for such a premise to be engaging, an additional foundation for such implausibilities to occur needed development.
It is recommended readers seek out other works of Thomas Perry than that of A Small Town.
In the aftermath, two years after the twelve behind the break out can't be located by authorities, Weldonville police officer Leah Hawkins then decides to hunt down the masterminds behind this rampage and send them off to the place they belong.
Unfortunately for this reader, the implausibilities within A Small Town required too much escape from reality to work and for such a premise to be engaging, an additional foundation for such implausibilities to occur needed development.
It is recommended readers seek out other works of Thomas Perry than that of A Small Town.