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tarotmaven 's review for:
Just One Evil Act
by Elizabeth George
Ms. George's need to show us all her worldliness and sophistication is pathetic. And annoying. It's bad enough that we've spent years putting aside her American pretensions to British-ness for the sake of a good story but now we all have to see how very Continental she is as well. Oh. Lucky us. The Italian dialogue is a ridiculous waste of space since it has to be translated in the next paragraph anyway - probably one of the reasons this book is a billion pages long. The only purpose it actually serves is to interrupt the flow of the story and remind us how very quaint and insular we American readers are. Maybe it's to inspire us to run out and buy an Italian phrase book so we're not such an embarrassment to her. I'm on page 120 and had I not paid full price for the hardcover I wouldn't bother to read further. Won't make that mistake again. In the future her books will come into my hands in paperback from the used bookstore only. Damn! I knew I should have bought the Amy Tan instead...