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goaskalix 's review for:
Ashes to Ashes
by Tami Hoag
Somehow, I feel like at the same time, this book deserves both a higher and a lower rating than what I've given it.
While it was a fairly engaging crime/mystery/law enforcement novel with an interesting premise (and outcome), overall it was... long. It just dragged on and on and on.
While this makes it abundantly clear as to how Hoag has grown as a writer since, it also means that though interesting, I don't know that I necessarily enjoyed the experience of reading Ashes to Ashes (as is evidenced by how long it took me to get through it, I suppose). The characters were a bit flat and dull for me, and as I said, there were long unnecessary patches of this book that just wasted both words and time. It could've been a lot cleaner and more streamlined with a few rounds of vicious, red-pen editing.
Maybe not the best decision for this to be the first crime-y book I've read since rereading my much returned to Kay Hooper 'Bishop' series late last year, but oh well. Can't win 'em all...
While it was a fairly engaging crime/mystery/law enforcement novel with an interesting premise (and outcome), overall it was... long. It just dragged on and on and on.
While this makes it abundantly clear as to how Hoag has grown as a writer since, it also means that though interesting, I don't know that I necessarily enjoyed the experience of reading Ashes to Ashes (as is evidenced by how long it took me to get through it, I suppose). The characters were a bit flat and dull for me, and as I said, there were long unnecessary patches of this book that just wasted both words and time. It could've been a lot cleaner and more streamlined with a few rounds of vicious, red-pen editing.
Maybe not the best decision for this to be the first crime-y book I've read since rereading my much returned to Kay Hooper 'Bishop' series late last year, but oh well. Can't win 'em all...