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A review by dawn_marie
The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne
1.0
Nope. Not for me. At all. I did not enjoy [b:The Girl Beneath the Sea|48526390|The Girl Beneath the Sea (Underwater Investigation Unit, #1)|Andrew Mayne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1571634473l/48526390._SY75_.jpg|73449316] by [a:Andrew Mayne|378554|Andrew Mayne|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1457742667p2/378554.jpg].
You’d think I‘d learn my lesson by now regarding Kindle “First Reads,” but apparently I haven’t. I don’t know what it is about the Amazon algorithm, but it (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more often than not) recommends books that I do not like.
What started out as a rather straight forward mystery became needlessly overly complicated by not-so-surprising twists, countless loose threads, and family drama. The meandering plot and uneven pacing was compounded by Mr. Mayne’s pedantic prose.
First person narrative is not my favorite (unreliable and/or biased narrator and all that) however I can overlook it if I like the narrator. I did not like Sloan McPherson – which is not necessarily a deal breaker – what made it unpleasant is that I was dealing with a character that I did not like and a writing style that I did not enjoy added to a mess of a plot.
The rest of this series is a hard pass from me.
You’d think I‘d learn my lesson by now regarding Kindle “First Reads,” but apparently I haven’t. I don’t know what it is about the Amazon algorithm, but it (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more often than not) recommends books that I do not like.
What started out as a rather straight forward mystery became needlessly overly complicated by not-so-surprising twists, countless loose threads, and family drama. The meandering plot and uneven pacing was compounded by Mr. Mayne’s pedantic prose.
First person narrative is not my favorite (unreliable and/or biased narrator and all that) however I can overlook it if I like the narrator. I did not like Sloan McPherson – which is not necessarily a deal breaker – what made it unpleasant is that I was dealing with a character that I did not like and a writing style that I did not enjoy added to a mess of a plot.
The rest of this series is a hard pass from me.