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rsjohnson's review
2.0
I like some light mysteries (Sue Grafton, Diane Mott Davidson, Janet Evanovich) so I had high hopes for this book. I was also curious to see how the issue of human trafficking would be addressed since it was part of the plot. Unfortunately I was greatly disappointed. There were so many characters that I was confused as to who was who, and the characters were barely developed. The issue of human trafficking was barely covered, and then it was all neatly wrapped up in the end.
I probably wouldn't have chosen this book on my own, but it was for this month's book club. I don't think I'll be reading anything by this author again.
I probably wouldn't have chosen this book on my own, but it was for this month's book club. I don't think I'll be reading anything by this author again.
catzkc's review
2.0
I really really wanted to like this book. She is a local KC author, and one of the local yarn stores which has a summer book club had selected this book for July. The author is to participate in the discussion and I was wanting to attend.
Unfortantely this is just not for me. I found it kind of difficult warm up to the main character, Skeet, or to get into the story. Maybe it would have helped if I had read the first book. After the first two or three chapters I knew I didn't care to finish it. I decided to go ahead and skim the rest of the book, as I was still hoping to attend the book club meeting. About half-way thru there was a very interesting chapter, which I went ahead and read thru. It introduces the human trafficing angle, but it doesn't seem that really goes anywhere for the rest of the book. Anyway, after that chapter I guessed who the killer was, and why, so I skipped to the final chapter of the book, and read that. Yep, I was right.
There is not much of a knitting angle either to this book. One of the characters owns a yarn store and a sheep farm, but other than a few incidental nuggets, they don't contribute much to the book. I was also kind of disappointed the setting of the book was a fictional town just outside of KC.
There were a couple of good quotes from the book that struck me, and I've added those to the Quotes. Because of that I bumped it up to 2 stars.
Unfortantely this is just not for me. I found it kind of difficult warm up to the main character, Skeet, or to get into the story. Maybe it would have helped if I had read the first book. After the first two or three chapters I knew I didn't care to finish it. I decided to go ahead and skim the rest of the book, as I was still hoping to attend the book club meeting. About half-way thru there was a very interesting chapter, which I went ahead and read thru. It introduces the human trafficing angle, but it doesn't seem that really goes anywhere for the rest of the book. Anyway, after that chapter I guessed who the killer was, and why, so I skipped to the final chapter of the book, and read that. Yep, I was right.
There is not much of a knitting angle either to this book. One of the characters owns a yarn store and a sheep farm, but other than a few incidental nuggets, they don't contribute much to the book. I was also kind of disappointed the setting of the book was a fictional town just outside of KC.
There were a couple of good quotes from the book that struck me, and I've added those to the Quotes. Because of that I bumped it up to 2 stars.
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