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A review by regorama
Paradise Lost by J.A. Jance
2.0
This is one of two books I found during the move that my mother had sent me years ago. When we lived in Germany, anything in English was fair game for reading material (I've read some real pieces of crap because of it) and we both got addicted to J. A. Jance's mysteries. She's got two series: J. P. Beaumont, of Seattle, and Joanna Brady, of Cochise County, AZ.
This was just like any other Joanna Brady (or JAJ) novel: a quick read, impossible to put down, and follows the same general story arc.
After reading through about a third of it, I realized I'd already read it, but couldn't remember exactly what happens, so I kept reading. It's not as good as it was the first time through. Joanna Brady is one of my first feminist role models, though I certainly didn't know it at the time, and I'm not sure what my mom might think of that. When I wanted to be an FBI agent, I knew that it would never be like the X-Files, but somehow, I thought it might be like one of Jance's mysteries.
Brady is a classic feminist stereotype: a single mom thrust into the man's world of law enforcement. At the beginning of this book, she cleans out other local sheriffs in a poker tournament and donates the proceeds to her daughter's Girl Scout troop.
All in all, not bad for trashy fiction, but not worth the reread.
This was just like any other Joanna Brady (or JAJ) novel: a quick read, impossible to put down, and follows the same general story arc.
After reading through about a third of it, I realized I'd already read it, but couldn't remember exactly what happens, so I kept reading. It's not as good as it was the first time through. Joanna Brady is one of my first feminist role models, though I certainly didn't know it at the time, and I'm not sure what my mom might think of that. When I wanted to be an FBI agent, I knew that it would never be like the X-Files, but somehow, I thought it might be like one of Jance's mysteries.
Brady is a classic feminist stereotype: a single mom thrust into the man's world of law enforcement. At the beginning of this book, she cleans out other local sheriffs in a poker tournament and donates the proceeds to her daughter's Girl Scout troop.
All in all, not bad for trashy fiction, but not worth the reread.