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A review by shakespearesgirl
The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
2.0
I didn't like this book. Spoilers will follow, but this book does not even merit a spoiler cut, it was so disappointing.
Gerritsen's writing continued to be not quite as good as I wanted it, her lingering, sexualized descriptions of murder and violence disturbed me enough to pull me out of the narrative, and the overall arch of her story ended in a way that, once again, made it impossible to guess the unsub before her big reveal.
There was also a tasteless, out-of-place sex scene that apparently made Rizzoli magically fall in love with Agent Dean. I was not impressed.
And, okay, look. There are certain rules when you write a mystery, okay? One of them is that your unsub has to have a connection of some kind to another character in the story. This book completely sets up Agent Dean with all the classic markers that point to him as a suspect. All of them. I am not kidding, literally everything he did from the moment he showed up pointed to his being the Dominator. But instead the Dominator was some dude we'd never even heard of who drove a limo. What even???? I am all for red herrings and throwing readers off the scent and shit, but seriously? This is twice now where the conclusion to her novel has made no sense without either privileged knowledge not given to the reader, or a magical window into the author's brain.
I'm just so done with Gerritsen, and with Rizzoli and Isles. I can't actually deal with this level of horribly bad mystery novels. Nope, done, no more.
Gerritsen's writing continued to be not quite as good as I wanted it, her lingering, sexualized descriptions of murder and violence disturbed me enough to pull me out of the narrative, and the overall arch of her story ended in a way that, once again, made it impossible to guess the unsub before her big reveal.
There was also a tasteless, out-of-place sex scene that apparently made Rizzoli magically fall in love with Agent Dean. I was not impressed.
And, okay, look. There are certain rules when you write a mystery, okay? One of them is that your unsub has to have a connection of some kind to another character in the story. This book completely sets up Agent Dean with all the classic markers that point to him as a suspect. All of them. I am not kidding, literally everything he did from the moment he showed up pointed to his being the Dominator. But instead the Dominator was some dude we'd never even heard of who drove a limo. What even???? I am all for red herrings and throwing readers off the scent and shit, but seriously? This is twice now where the conclusion to her novel has made no sense without either privileged knowledge not given to the reader, or a magical window into the author's brain.
I'm just so done with Gerritsen, and with Rizzoli and Isles. I can't actually deal with this level of horribly bad mystery novels. Nope, done, no more.