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audreyintheheadphones's review
2.0
The second Willa Jansson mystery I've read, and it'll definitely be the last. In the first one, I found Willa annoying because she wouldn't shut up about her herpes, and in this one I found her annoying because she acted like a child the whole time.
Between stomping about with no regard for her parents' feelings and calling her not-bf SFPD homicide lieutenant to drive from SF to Merced because she "had an uneasy feeling" and throwing tantrums when the pot she craved wasn't immediately accessible, there was really nothing to like about her. And more than that, she just wasn't interesting about being unlikeable, which was the worst part.
And then, on a return visit to her alma mater, she compared finding her name on the engraved plaques noting the top ten percent of a graduating class to finding her name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Whiskey tango ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
There was a moment late in the book where I thought Willa had a good chance of dying, and I found myself thinking, "Huh, if she dies, I will have a hell of a lot of respect for this book. It would make a very nice twist." And yet, I was sorely disappointed.
The plot was nearly transparent, the main character needed a hard slap, the love story fell flat, and the ending made me wing the book across the room. But on the plus side, now I've read it, I definitely know this series isn't for me.
Between stomping about with no regard for her parents' feelings and calling her not-bf SFPD homicide lieutenant to drive from SF to Merced because she "had an uneasy feeling" and throwing tantrums when the pot she craved wasn't immediately accessible, there was really nothing to like about her. And more than that, she just wasn't interesting about being unlikeable, which was the worst part.
And then, on a return visit to her alma mater, she compared finding her name on the engraved plaques noting the top ten percent of a graduating class to finding her name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Whiskey tango ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
There was a moment late in the book where I thought Willa had a good chance of dying, and I found myself thinking, "Huh, if she dies, I will have a hell of a lot of respect for this book. It would make a very nice twist." And yet, I was sorely disappointed.
The plot was nearly transparent, the main character needed a hard slap, the love story fell flat, and the ending made me wing the book across the room. But on the plus side, now I've read it, I definitely know this series isn't for me.
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