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chiaroscuro 's review for:
Fatal Affair
by Marie Force
I've been on a three-day romance/mystery kick lately, and I have to say… it has not been fruitful.
Idk man. Obviously I was disproportionately excited to have guessed the murderer, but loathe as I am to admit it, this was not a very difficult task. Force's method of keeping the murderer out of the reader's mind was to mention them as few times as possible and misdirect attention towards someone else more predictable — only, were they more predictable?Not to be heteronormative, but I think murder (of women) preceded by penetrative rape points much more towards a man than a woman. Why did Sam not figure this out… Not only does this make the mystery kind of weak-hitting, but it makes the main character(s) look stupid. Also I literally know nothing about murder investigations, but besides obvious suspects being overlooked, it sounds to me as if Sam did a terrible job with this one because three people died during the investigation, but these deaths don't gnaw at her. So is she only racked up with guilt about the Johnson boy because he was a child? Surely these ones are more on her conscience for not being a better detective? It was an intriguing setting and I like the politics, because I like how seedy the inner lives of everyone in office are, but the mystery just fell flat.
It also seems really dodgy to me how Sam shares all the details of the case with Nick without him even signing anything but whatever goes in fiction I guess. At least in Castle he had permission from her CO and all.
Mostly though the fault is mine. I didn't check Goodreads before I jumped into this, and now I rue this oversight because I thought I was going to get a series with changing leads each book. Now I don't know if I'm up for what's ahead. I don't really like Sam and Nick enough to read two books with them, let alone fifteen. Am I going to read book 2? Probably, because I'll forget about the mild disappointment currently in my heart. Am I going to get all the way to book 15? Probably not, but I did once read sixteen bad to mildly decent books because my friend vividly described to me a scene in #16 so I might get back on my bullshit for this series.
Idk man. Obviously I was disproportionately excited to have guessed the murderer, but loathe as I am to admit it, this was not a very difficult task. Force's method of keeping the murderer out of the reader's mind was to mention them as few times as possible and misdirect attention towards someone else more predictable — only, were they more predictable?
It also seems really dodgy to me how Sam shares all the details of the case with Nick without him even signing anything but whatever goes in fiction I guess. At least in Castle he had permission from her CO and all.
Mostly though the fault is mine. I didn't check Goodreads before I jumped into this, and now I rue this oversight because I thought I was going to get a series with changing leads each book. Now I don't know if I'm up for what's ahead. I don't really like Sam and Nick enough to read two books with them, let alone fifteen. Am I going to read book 2? Probably, because I'll forget about the mild disappointment currently in my heart. Am I going to get all the way to book 15? Probably not, but I did once read sixteen bad to mildly decent books because my friend vividly described to me a scene in #16 so I might get back on my bullshit for this series.