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A review by usbsticky
Dead Aim by Thomas Perry
1.0
1 star = did not like it by GR's rating system
I dnf'd this book at 34%. And actually I should have known better since I've read a lot of Thomas Perry's books but this will be my last one. I generally like his books because they're very easy to read and get into. This one was no different.
Spoilers ahead:
Robert Mallon is a rich retired dude. He's at the beach and saves a young woman who tries to drown herself. She seems ok and goes back to his house where she seduces him. He goes out to buy dinner but she disappears. Two days later he finds out in the news that she has successfully committed suicide. He hires a private investigator and together they look into her history to find out more about her. So far so good.
About 30% into the book we are introduced to another character Marcia. At this point I don't know if this is a short interlude or parallel story. I gamely follow along just so that I get back to the main story but after reading a few chapters I'm still in this POV.
Thomas Perry has a habit of splitting his books into different POV's, sometimes it's ok. In the last Perry book that I dnf'd, he split his book into 3 POV's. In fact, he seemed to put so much effort into writing 3 stories that he forgot to put effort into giving character to his 3 characters. All 3 were shallow and I didn't care about them so I dnf'd.
With this book I just liked the original story and I didn't care about this Marcia character. I thought about just fast reading this POV to get back to the main story but I just didn't want to put the effort into it. Ugh. That's it, this will be my last Thomas Perry book.
I dnf'd this book at 34%. And actually I should have known better since I've read a lot of Thomas Perry's books but this will be my last one. I generally like his books because they're very easy to read and get into. This one was no different.
Spoilers ahead:
Robert Mallon is a rich retired dude. He's at the beach and saves a young woman who tries to drown herself. She seems ok and goes back to his house where she seduces him. He goes out to buy dinner but she disappears. Two days later he finds out in the news that she has successfully committed suicide. He hires a private investigator and together they look into her history to find out more about her. So far so good.
About 30% into the book we are introduced to another character Marcia. At this point I don't know if this is a short interlude or parallel story. I gamely follow along just so that I get back to the main story but after reading a few chapters I'm still in this POV.
Thomas Perry has a habit of splitting his books into different POV's, sometimes it's ok. In the last Perry book that I dnf'd, he split his book into 3 POV's. In fact, he seemed to put so much effort into writing 3 stories that he forgot to put effort into giving character to his 3 characters. All 3 were shallow and I didn't care about them so I dnf'd.
With this book I just liked the original story and I didn't care about this Marcia character. I thought about just fast reading this POV to get back to the main story but I just didn't want to put the effort into it. Ugh. That's it, this will be my last Thomas Perry book.