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A review by catzkc
Every Broken Trust by Linda Rodriguez
2.0
I really really wanted to like this book. She is a local KC author, and one of the local yarn stores which has a summer book club had selected this book for July. The author is to participate in the discussion and I was wanting to attend.
Unfortantely this is just not for me. I found it kind of difficult warm up to the main character, Skeet, or to get into the story. Maybe it would have helped if I had read the first book. After the first two or three chapters I knew I didn't care to finish it. I decided to go ahead and skim the rest of the book, as I was still hoping to attend the book club meeting. About half-way thru there was a very interesting chapter, which I went ahead and read thru. It introduces the human trafficing angle, but it doesn't seem that really goes anywhere for the rest of the book. Anyway, after that chapter I guessed who the killer was, and why, so I skipped to the final chapter of the book, and read that. Yep, I was right.
There is not much of a knitting angle either to this book. One of the characters owns a yarn store and a sheep farm, but other than a few incidental nuggets, they don't contribute much to the book. I was also kind of disappointed the setting of the book was a fictional town just outside of KC.
There were a couple of good quotes from the book that struck me, and I've added those to the Quotes. Because of that I bumped it up to 2 stars.
Unfortantely this is just not for me. I found it kind of difficult warm up to the main character, Skeet, or to get into the story. Maybe it would have helped if I had read the first book. After the first two or three chapters I knew I didn't care to finish it. I decided to go ahead and skim the rest of the book, as I was still hoping to attend the book club meeting. About half-way thru there was a very interesting chapter, which I went ahead and read thru. It introduces the human trafficing angle, but it doesn't seem that really goes anywhere for the rest of the book. Anyway, after that chapter I guessed who the killer was, and why, so I skipped to the final chapter of the book, and read that. Yep, I was right.
There is not much of a knitting angle either to this book. One of the characters owns a yarn store and a sheep farm, but other than a few incidental nuggets, they don't contribute much to the book. I was also kind of disappointed the setting of the book was a fictional town just outside of KC.
There were a couple of good quotes from the book that struck me, and I've added those to the Quotes. Because of that I bumped it up to 2 stars.