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A review by paulabrandon
Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner
3.0
This feels a lot like Lisa Gardner wanted to do a trendy unreliable narrator book, since so many first-time or new authors were hitting it big with similar ideas (Before I Go To Sleep, Gone Girl etc). While it's a typically twisty entry from her, it falls at the bottom end of the scale of her output. First of all, it's just TOO SLOW to get going. For the first 40%, we keep going back again and again to that ravine for what feels like a how-to guide on investigating motor vehicle accidents! Wyatt even says "I'm sick of this damn ravine" three times in one page, and I was in complete agreement!
If there's a car accident and nobody is injured and no drink-driving was involved (like here), I don't know any police department that would spend so much time investigating! They've got other things to do!
After about 45%, it got back on track, but it was a bit too-little, too-late for me! Lots of repetition ("Vero wants to fly!"), too few characters in the narrative to really have a good whodunit, and a climax that was virtually Grand Guignol! (I half expected the villain to declare: "You must die for what you know! Mwah mwah mwah!")
Lisa Gardner is capable of much better than this!
If there's a car accident and nobody is injured and no drink-driving was involved (like here), I don't know any police department that would spend so much time investigating! They've got other things to do!
After about 45%, it got back on track, but it was a bit too-little, too-late for me! Lots of repetition ("Vero wants to fly!"), too few characters in the narrative to really have a good whodunit, and a climax that was virtually Grand Guignol! (I half expected the villain to declare: "You must die for what you know! Mwah mwah mwah!")
Lisa Gardner is capable of much better than this!