A review by clockless
No Good Deed by M.P. McDonald

3.0

It's kind of a weird book. You would think that a magical camera that tells the future would be a major part of the story, but for most of the book it is just the McGuffin that puts the main character in jeopardy, and the specific incident is one that took place a long time before the story began. So you have a story where the bulk of it is Mark being in trouble for trying to be a hero, but you don't actually see the part where he did that. It's a story with a high-concept, but it doesn't make good use of it. This is really a story about torture and PTSD, and it does that pretty well, but it's hard to see why the author went to such lengths to justify it.