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A review by celiaedf12
Sacred Cows by Karen E. Olson
2.0
Female students keep turning up dead, and crime reporter Annie uncovers a conspiracy as she tried to identify their killer. It's a kind of unnecessarily complicated conspiracy, though, and I became bored with Annie's attempt to solve it.
An attractive private investigator is also involved (who used to be the geeky guy at Annie's high school, of course), and Annie falls for him. But she already has a boyfriend! What is a girl to do? Never mind, the boyfriend quickly and conveniently dumps her, with no hard feelings or broken hearts on either side (which makes you wonder why have the relationship there in the first place? I know she needs an inside source, but why not make that source her brother or something?). It was a patently false relationship, and it put me off the character.
I just didn't like Annie that much as a crime solver - her methods irritated me, the way she kept going off and meeting people when they obviously were plotting to kidnap her or kill her - I just wanted her to get a grip and get on with things. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill crime novel, and I wasn't really enthused by it.
An attractive private investigator is also involved (who used to be the geeky guy at Annie's high school, of course), and Annie falls for him. But she already has a boyfriend! What is a girl to do? Never mind, the boyfriend quickly and conveniently dumps her, with no hard feelings or broken hearts on either side (which makes you wonder why have the relationship there in the first place? I know she needs an inside source, but why not make that source her brother or something?). It was a patently false relationship, and it put me off the character.
I just didn't like Annie that much as a crime solver - her methods irritated me, the way she kept going off and meeting people when they obviously were plotting to kidnap her or kill her - I just wanted her to get a grip and get on with things. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill crime novel, and I wasn't really enthused by it.