A review by gregcagle
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow

3.0

Three stars. Characterization: pretty good. Plot: twisty and interesting. Writing: here's where I drop half a star. Too much detail that's not critical to the storytelling, and the writing is stylistically "casual" (as is much of Winslow) and it grates on me. Example: "See, what Jack was thinking was that he would..." And lots of sentence fragments and other attempts to sound cool. I get what Winslow was trying to do, but it doesn't work.