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Loving Time (April Woo Mysteries)

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Aside from the lame title (seems more appropriate for a sleazy romance), this book was less than appealing to me. The plot development was SLOW...not that I even cared what was going on. The characters didn't DO much, the sections focusing on April's mother and Sanchez's mother were seemingly pointless, and the "crime" was boring. Get it at the library or skip it altogether.

You know a mystery isn't very riveting when it takes 9 wks. to read it! I only stuck with it because I loved the 1st 2 April Woo books & wanted to see what would happen with the personal lives of the 3 main characters: Det. April Woo, Det. Sgt. Mike Sanchez (her potential love interest), & psychiarist Jason Frank, M.D. who is very likeable (& generally intriguing but not in this installment) but has a troubled marriage.

I kept hitting boring spots and then wouldn't read it for a week. Then I'd have to skim the last couple chapters I'd read because I'd forgettten what happened in just 1 week's time because it wasn't very memorable.

The first 2 books in the April Woo series I just flew through. I gave them 4-5 stars each. This one gets bogged down by a lack of action. New developments are too slowly revealed to hold the reader's attention. Also, unlike the 1st 2 books, the writing style is clunky. I would re-read sentences because there was more than one way to interpret them and even with re-reading them I still was unsure what Glass meant. I don't normally have this problem -- I have a Bachelor's Degree from a good university with a minor in English.