readinginmagnolia 's review for:

Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

3.0

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I read a lot of Sandra Brown books in my twenties and enjoyed most of them. It’s been at least 12 years since I picked one up so when I saw that this one took place in Prohibition Era Texas, I decided to go for it. I really enjoyed the setup and the characters, but somewhere around the halfway point it started to drag, and I realized that I wasn’t as engaged anymore. I like a good action book and expected it with all the bootlegging, but there was a little too much violence against women for me in this one. A pregnant woman was murdered

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bashed in the head with an iron skillet in the kitchen while her back was turned by her husband

, a woman in a cathouse was beaten to the point of losing the use of one arm and one eye

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by a john

, and another woman with an infant was brutally beaten, raped and

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succumbed to her injuries by the biggest bootlegger, the mayor

all by different individuals and I didn’t even go into the violence against the protagonist or the bootlegging violence. It was all just a little too much for one book. In addition, this book also had the “hero can do everything trope” from shooting the head off a rattlesnake at 50 paces and training a green horse that no one else will touch to detecting better than all the actual cops and having a “knack with reading people”.