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greenrain 's review for:
Beastly Bones
by William Ritter
There were many things I loved about the first book that were absent from this sequel. Jackaby, in particular, felt more one dimensional and boring (although I laughed quite a bit over the Dewey Decimal opinion). Leaving the interesting setting of the city for the countryside was a letdown. Most of all, the mystery was so transparent from the beginning that I didn't really care much about it. There was little suspense, and the villain lacked the terrifying, make-your-hair-stand-on-end qualities that a serial killer topped by a blood-soaked hat possessed in the first novel. I was much more interested in the story set up for the next book and somewhat wish the author would have skipped throwing out this distracting bone and get to something more substantial. This all sounds harsh, since it wasn't really a bad book, it simply didn't live up to the first.
I will definitely read the next novel, I only wish I knew the cure for the middle-of-a-trilogy doldrums.
I will definitely read the next novel, I only wish I knew the cure for the middle-of-a-trilogy doldrums.