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shambrimurphy 's review for:
D is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“Some debts of the human soul are so enormous that only life itself is sufficient forfeit”
“Death comes in a gathering cloud that settles like a veil”
I feel too stunned to think about this book. In this case I felt like I never expected this suspect or this ending, as the climax approached I kept thinking, “surely nobody would write this in a light detective novel”. I felt like Kinsey as the hero had to succeed, she had to grab him, save him, end up with a few bruises but better off and safe as well as the boy. This book is very conflicting to my view of the series and I’m not sure how to rate it so I may return and adjust it.
In a way it feels as though it’s qualifying for 4-5 stars
-I couldn’t guess the ending or the culprit so it was not a predictable novel
-it was fast paced and quick to read
-the characters were endearing and real
-the ending was ever effecting. The scenes were compelling. Of the three deaths the two described scenes Kinsey witnesses are tragic and dramatic in setting and dialogue. Grafton is truly crafting prose to pull at your humanity in these scenes and showing off her skill set.
Yet something felt missed and the book feels lesser quality than the last for some reason. I can’t pinpoint it but I have ideas
-No Henry- whereas the last book had a hooking sub plot with Kinseys community of Rosy and Henry in the neighborhood this book was quite the opposite. Rosy makes one good but fast appearance and our hot old man Henry is entirely absent. There was no side story to this book and it was entirely consumed by the main plot line with one quick and dirty affair in Kinseys strange shack-like room. Why she would ever bring a lover back to the garage she haunts and seduce them on her Wonder Woman sheets, on her pull out bed couch- that is if they bothered to pull it out- is a mystery to me. To be honest I felt more of a pull to Billy than Jonah and wished Kinsey had just hooked up with him instead- she did peep into what the show would be like after all. Jonah is a boring character and im surprised in her interest in him, he’s a man who engages in a toxic marriage and complains about his wife but doesn’t take action to fix it- somehow Kinsey is so attracted to him but it must be his looks.
- Kinsey has nonsensical actions that seem to exist only as ways to stall- kind of like her attempts at stalling Tony in the end. She didn’t ask what every reader was probably shouting at the pages when Billy dies- “WHO DID IT!”
-Kinsey has a strange loyalty to Daggett and insists on protecting him after death which seems strange for someone who is a car crash orphaning victim. She doesn’t give her new client full information and is often rude to her, she’s actually quite rude.
“Death comes in a gathering cloud that settles like a veil”
I feel too stunned to think about this book. In this case I felt like I never expected this suspect or this ending, as the climax approached I kept thinking, “surely nobody would write this in a light detective novel”. I felt like Kinsey as the hero had to succeed, she had to grab him, save him, end up with a few bruises but better off and safe as well as the boy. This book is very conflicting to my view of the series and I’m not sure how to rate it so I may return and adjust it.
In a way it feels as though it’s qualifying for 4-5 stars
-I couldn’t guess the ending or the culprit so it was not a predictable novel
-it was fast paced and quick to read
-the characters were endearing and real
-the ending was ever effecting. The scenes were compelling. Of the three deaths the two described scenes Kinsey witnesses are tragic and dramatic in setting and dialogue. Grafton is truly crafting prose to pull at your humanity in these scenes and showing off her skill set.
Yet something felt missed and the book feels lesser quality than the last for some reason. I can’t pinpoint it but I have ideas
-No Henry- whereas the last book had a hooking sub plot with Kinseys community of Rosy and Henry in the neighborhood this book was quite the opposite. Rosy makes one good but fast appearance and our hot old man Henry is entirely absent. There was no side story to this book and it was entirely consumed by the main plot line with one quick and dirty affair in Kinseys strange shack-like room. Why she would ever bring a lover back to the garage she haunts and seduce them on her Wonder Woman sheets, on her pull out bed couch- that is if they bothered to pull it out- is a mystery to me. To be honest I felt more of a pull to Billy than Jonah and wished Kinsey had just hooked up with him instead- she did peep into what the show would be like after all. Jonah is a boring character and im surprised in her interest in him, he’s a man who engages in a toxic marriage and complains about his wife but doesn’t take action to fix it- somehow Kinsey is so attracted to him but it must be his looks.
- Kinsey has nonsensical actions that seem to exist only as ways to stall- kind of like her attempts at stalling Tony in the end. She didn’t ask what every reader was probably shouting at the pages when Billy dies- “WHO DID IT!”
-Kinsey has a strange loyalty to Daggett and insists on protecting him after death which seems strange for someone who is a car crash orphaning victim. She doesn’t give her new client full information and is often rude to her, she’s actually quite rude.