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David William Pearce

Autor de Too Many Women, Too Little Time

7 Obras 25 Miembros 3 Reseñas

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Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
This is billed as a mystery, but there is very little mystery but a lot of relationship issues for the main character, who isn't all that likeable.
 
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bookwyrmm | otra reseña | Apr 4, 2022 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
I received an ARC for this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not going to be finishing this book. I got a little over halfway, up to chapter 18. But I've decided that's it.

What's good: the premise is interesting. Marines who served together in Afghanistan are dying; committing suicide, or in one case, a murder-suicide, and it seems to be connected to something that happened while they were on deployment. One of the Marines in the unit is the narrator's brother, and Monk Buttman is determined to find out what happened. The actual prose isn't bad, and I kept reading even after I thought I probably wouldn't finish (at about 25%).

What's not good: It's boring. This is supposed to be a mystery, but the mystery takes a distant back seat to scene after scene of people talking. About their insecurities, about their finances, about their children. People sitting by the pool and talking. People going to art galleries and talking. And not one word of all this talking and the minutiae of daily living goes toward forwarding the plot. I would say 80% of this story is dialogue, and maybe 10% of that dialogue has anything to do with the mystery.

In addition, there are dozens of characters that wander on and off the page, few of whom have anything to do with the central premise, and none of whom are particularly interesting. It took me a long time to get everyone straight in my head. And I didn't care much for the protagonist, Monk. Or his girlfriend, Agnes. He's kind of a jerk and she's kind of a whiner. There were many conversations of her insecurity making her believe he is cheating on her, and his explaining how he isn't. Until he does. At that point I had had enough of their relationship and decided to finally stop.
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TheGalaxyGirl | Oct 11, 2021 |
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Well, I did not like Monk, which is a problem as he is the main character.
The pacing of the book was slow, very slow. At about two thirds of the book you begin to understand some of the problems Monk encounters. And the end of the book was really good.
It was not that I wanted to stop reading, the book was too good for that. If you like reading about someone who encounters a lot of problems and in the end solves a lot of them, this is the book to read. O, and do not forget the women in the book, they are quite important too. As for that, I did not like Agnes either.
Who I did like, was Zach. As everyone else did.
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Corrie57 | otra reseña | Apr 24, 2021 |

Estadísticas

Obras
7
Miembros
25
Popularidad
#508,561
Valoración
2.0
Reseñas
3
ISBNs
5
Idiomas
1