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A review by 5elementknitr
Bad Things by Michael Marshall Smith
2.0
This is my least favorite of his so far.
The writing is REALLY good! The characters are really well-developed. Well... most of them.
This book was all over the place. Is John trying to get over the death of his son? Is he trying to save his friends from drug dealers? Is he trying to figure out what happened to his son? Is there something supernatural going on? Is the town as a whole just bad? Are the townfolk in on it? And was the whole Becki storyline just a vehicle to make two gangbangers reasonably believably show up to help out with the final battle?
And Carol. She was so peripheral that when she popped up, I kept having to remind myself who she even was. Same with Kristin.
It took until the last 70 pages (out of 370) for the author to finally pull all the strings together and tie up the story so that the reader could figure out what was going on.
The writing is REALLY good! The characters are really well-developed. Well... most of them.
This book was all over the place. Is John trying to get over the death of his son? Is he trying to save his friends from drug dealers? Is he trying to figure out what happened to his son? Is there something supernatural going on? Is the town as a whole just bad? Are the townfolk in on it? And was the whole Becki storyline just a vehicle to make two gangbangers reasonably believably show up to help out with the final battle?
And Carol. She was so peripheral that when she popped up, I kept having to remind myself who she even was. Same with Kristin.
It took until the last 70 pages (out of 370) for the author to finally pull all the strings together and tie up the story so that the reader could figure out what was going on.