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2.0 out of 5 stars
A compelling badly-written book,
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This review is from: Murder is Relative (Paperback)
I am not sure why, but I can't seem to stop reading this poorly-written book. It's not the plot, which is far too convoluted and devoid of interest to sustain serious inquiry. The writing style is tedious and sophomoric. The character are charmless, primarily recovering alcoholics in 12-step programs and nuns (and a main character who is both).The conceit is that an old woman hires the main character (Bridgid Donovan) to write a history of a very small non-profit Catholic charity called H.O.P.E. (Helping Others, the Poor Especially). One wonders what the market share of such a book might be. Just this premise alone stretches the bounds of belief. Why would someone write such a book? Why would someone read such a book? A secondary (or primary) agenda however emerges in a related investigation of a murder, which is so labyrinthine and involves totally undeveloped characters in all kinds of tangential relationships with each other, that one tunes out all developments in this plot completely rather than dwell on something of such little interest. Every once in a while however, Saum focuses in on something picturesque about Quebec City or Manhattan that keeps me plodding along. |
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Murder is Relative by Karen Saum (Paperback - Dec. 1994)
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