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A review by bravokidroxy
Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Hatchet Island by Paul Doiorn
3/5 checked out returned audiobook to local library.
To be enterily clear, this is book 13 in the series starring Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch. I have not read any of the other ones. And I probably won’t.
I picked it up because it was available now as an audio book and Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet is one of my faves.
The murder was fine. The world building was good. There was an attempt at addressing the overwhelming whiteness of Maine and murder mystery genre in general that felt badly heavy handed. The worst thing was that the title island literally does not become actually useful to the plot until like 62%. We are on so many different islands off the coast of Maine, Hatchet just ain’t one of them. Seriously why.
3/5 checked out returned audiobook to local library.
To be enterily clear, this is book 13 in the series starring Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch. I have not read any of the other ones. And I probably won’t.
I picked it up because it was available now as an audio book and Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet is one of my faves.
The murder was fine. The world building was good. There was an attempt at addressing the overwhelming whiteness of Maine and murder mystery genre in general that felt badly heavy handed. The worst thing was that the title island literally does not become actually useful to the plot until like 62%. We are on so many different islands off the coast of Maine, Hatchet just ain’t one of them. Seriously why.