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A review by ladeeda
Cataract City by Craig Davidson
4.0
I, like a lot of reviews I've read on this book, had a hard time rating it. The story is compelling but a little heavy on description for my taste. The book is well written, Davidson is an artist but there were some glaring timeline errors which I already moaned about. The graphic animal cruelty was too much for me, I am an animal lover, especially dogs. I'm well aware of the cruelty animals suffer at the hand of man but I don't want to read about it for pleasure, in my spare time.
Also I have to call bullshit, to me this was a huge plot error; the van being left in the woods for Dunk and Owe to find many years later when they happen to be lost, again. Not very well researched, a van used in a kidnapping, found with a dead body wouldn't just be left behind with drugs inside. Which brings me to how the hell Owe got on the police force with his knee??? He couldn't play basketball because he was too slow and walked with a cane but he some how passes the intensive police physical. Give me a break. Not to mention police are fired for associating with criminals as friends, so... And I thought after they returned home from the woods the first time they learned they had gone the wrong way and would have saved themselves a lot of time if they had gone the opposite route? But the second time, leaving from the same van they have the same problem. I wanted to yell at them, "Idiots."
Also I have to call bullshit, to me this was a huge plot error; the van being left in the woods for Dunk and Owe to find many years later when they happen to be lost, again. Not very well researched, a van used in a kidnapping, found with a dead body wouldn't just be left behind with drugs inside. Which brings me to how the hell Owe got on the police force with his knee??? He couldn't play basketball because he was too slow and walked with a cane but he some how passes the intensive police physical. Give me a break. Not to mention police are fired for associating with criminals as friends, so... And I thought after they returned home from the woods the first time they learned they had gone the wrong way and would have saved themselves a lot of time if they had gone the opposite route? But the second time, leaving from the same van they have the same problem. I wanted to yell at them, "Idiots."