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A review by cordelia0704
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
1.0
I really wish there was an option to deliberately say, zero stars. I love Ms. Harris' Sookie books so very much, that I thought I would love all her books. Well, that theory is now dead in the water.
While this book isn't her first book, it is her first series, and its horrible for lack of a better word. I'm not sure I can adequately relate my disappointment. The characters are flat. They're boring, you never really get a sense that its a person relating events to you. It's like you're reading the diary of a very scatter-brained and ill-educated person, who really never should have kept a diary to start with.
The crimes discussed in the book, besides obviously the one Aurora discovered, all seem to be from England. They're in Georgia for cripes sake, why are they referencing all these crimes from England? Is there a reason our long list of crimes in America wasn't good enough? Georgia started out as a prison colony, I'm sure they could have dug up something that happened in this country that could have suited it. This is just a pet-peeve of mine, when it comes to these stories. It made absolutely no sense to me what-so-ever.
The book is short, thankfully. The characters and plot aren't particularly imaginative, well-written or even interesting. It was basically one disappointment after another and I can't bear the thought of trying to read anymore of this series. Please excuse me while I go remove the remainder from my to-read list. Moving on to the Harper Connolly series now, which I hear may become a tv show. Let's hope the later works are better, and these Teagarden books were just like training wheels for the great books that came later.
While this book isn't her first book, it is her first series, and its horrible for lack of a better word. I'm not sure I can adequately relate my disappointment. The characters are flat. They're boring, you never really get a sense that its a person relating events to you. It's like you're reading the diary of a very scatter-brained and ill-educated person, who really never should have kept a diary to start with.
The crimes discussed in the book, besides obviously the one Aurora discovered, all seem to be from England. They're in Georgia for cripes sake, why are they referencing all these crimes from England? Is there a reason our long list of crimes in America wasn't good enough? Georgia started out as a prison colony, I'm sure they could have dug up something that happened in this country that could have suited it. This is just a pet-peeve of mine, when it comes to these stories. It made absolutely no sense to me what-so-ever.
The book is short, thankfully. The characters and plot aren't particularly imaginative, well-written or even interesting. It was basically one disappointment after another and I can't bear the thought of trying to read anymore of this series. Please excuse me while I go remove the remainder from my to-read list. Moving on to the Harper Connolly series now, which I hear may become a tv show. Let's hope the later works are better, and these Teagarden books were just like training wheels for the great books that came later.