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A review by balthazarlawson
Containment by Vanda Symon
3.0
Sam Shephard is spending a bit of time pet sitting when her peaceful Sunday is turned upside down. She is assaulted at the site of a ship that has run aground and the containers that have washed up on the beach are being looted.
This is the start of a rather convoluted story of events that end with the death of a police officer and several questions being left unanswered. Everything seems to be a total coincidence and when so many of these coincidences are linked you realise that they aren't a coincidence. The logic of the investigations seems to have gone missing and people of interest are overlooked. It lacks a certain level of depth a good crime novel needs.
Plus there is all the personal stuff that is going on in Sam's life that is never answered. At times she appears to completely over react to simple things and then we get an angst ridden Sam trying to figure out life. It all felt like padding to stretch out the book, especially as there was no resolution.
Not at enjoyable as the previous book in the series as it seems to loose it's way.
This is the start of a rather convoluted story of events that end with the death of a police officer and several questions being left unanswered. Everything seems to be a total coincidence and when so many of these coincidences are linked you realise that they aren't a coincidence. The logic of the investigations seems to have gone missing and people of interest are overlooked. It lacks a certain level of depth a good crime novel needs.
Plus there is all the personal stuff that is going on in Sam's life that is never answered. At times she appears to completely over react to simple things and then we get an angst ridden Sam trying to figure out life. It all felt like padding to stretch out the book, especially as there was no resolution.
Not at enjoyable as the previous book in the series as it seems to loose it's way.