A review by qu33nofbookz
Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber

1.0

No idea how this has such a high rating. It's 3/4's info dump on something that may totally be made up but I don't have then energy after dragging myself through this book to wikipedia it (if I even cared to by the end I was ready to cry if it would smudge the pages of this crap). The "story" such as it was only covered about 1/4 of the book and it was beyond believable for the amount of crap that was being shoveled on you.

All the characters (who were all trying to be a different race then they were) besides the abused 4 year old were flat, racist despicable people with 0 emotion. This book was written in a clinical way there are no emotions what so ever. The characters feel nothing, they don't grow or change in any way and there is no emotion in what they are going through or what is happening around them. You can't connect to any of them and I felt nothing for them. By the end of the book I was wishing for the apocalypse to come and wipe everyone out. It would have been a better ending that way too.

The "thriller" part was non-existent and the "mystery" easy to guess despite the author trying to withhold parts of it by not naming people.

I will not be reading any further books in this series or by this author.