A review by suclaire
Death Qualified by Kate Wilhelm

1.0

Abandoned the book about 70% through, due to life being too short. I agree completely with another review I saw on here: "Barbara Holloway is too crabby." Though I wonder how much this had to do with the tone of the reader - I was listening to the audiobook. The reader seemed to inject a lot more sarcasm and negativity into the voices/dialogue than I might have read it with in my head. This left me feeling very unattached to the characters and to the outcome of the story, and certainly to the future cases and adventures that the crabby legal genius Barbara Holloway would be somehow dragged into against her will.

Anyway, I was disappointed because I have recently read and enjoyed 3 stand-alone type books by Kate Wilhelm. My favorite was "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang." I had hoped to enjoy the whole Barbara Holloway series, but will be removing these books from my to-read queue. Life is too short and there are so many more books to read... Including more of Kate Wilhelm's - just not this series for me.