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A review by roguehireling
The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner
3.0
I read this because it sounded interesting. I like mysteries and I like SciFi, so why not give it a try?
Well I read the entire thing, mainly because I wanted to find out who dunnit. But also because it was really well written. Such a smooth writer.
But the dunnit part was rather disturbing. I really didn't like the crime topic.
That being said I wasn't at all surprised by the switch in genre half way through as I felt the first half foreshadowed it quite well.
And the ending was incredibly unsatisfying. While we find out who did it, it gets all muddled and not explained at all. Which is ironic as the last quarter of the book is filled with describing EVERYthing. Really needed some editing, especially if the ending was supposed to be left so vague then all the previous explaining is very odd.
But I think what I found the most odd about the book was that it seemed a bit self indulgent. The hero seems a bit too spitting image of the actual author. But then they say to write what you know. I dont know, it just seemed a bit too personal.
Well I read the entire thing, mainly because I wanted to find out who dunnit. But also because it was really well written. Such a smooth writer.
But the dunnit part was rather disturbing. I really didn't like the crime topic.
That being said I wasn't at all surprised by the switch in genre half way through as I felt the first half foreshadowed it quite well.
And the ending was incredibly unsatisfying. While we find out who did it, it gets all muddled and not explained at all. Which is ironic as the last quarter of the book is filled with describing EVERYthing. Really needed some editing, especially if the ending was supposed to be left so vague then all the previous explaining is very odd.
But I think what I found the most odd about the book was that it seemed a bit self indulgent. The hero seems a bit too spitting image of the actual author. But then they say to write what you know. I dont know, it just seemed a bit too personal.