Pari Noskin Taichert
Autor de The Clovis Incident
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Cary Herz.
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Obras de Pari Noskin Taichert
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
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The Clovis Incident: A Mystery (Sasha Solomon… por Pari Noskin Taichert
It took me quite a while to get into this. UFO's, talking cats, bloody hallucinations, alien abductions combine to make me wonder if this was the book for me. However, several strong recommendations made me give it a second and third chance. Once I got to the point where the story was more about the people and less about aliens it picked up and in the end I enjoyed the story. It was slow going at first but I'm glad I kept at it because in the end it was worth it.
Okay, I'm giving up. I've read all three of the Sasha Solomon books and I still don't like the main character. The mysteries are good, the writing is wonderful and I'm uncomfortable the whole time I'm reading because Sasha just makes me uncomfortable. So, although I like her mysteries, I'm done with Taichert and the Sasha chronicles. Oh well, plenty other to read and I'll spend that time on people I grow to care about, no someone I have to work to make me finish the story.
Writer Pari Noskin Taichert has crafted a breezy, fast-paced, slightly odd tale of a publicist looking for a job with the Chamber of Commerce in Clovis, NM. Murder, ghosts, a talking cat, and alien abductions ensue. First in a planned series of mystery novels set in New Mexico locales.
Published in hardcover by University of New Mexico Press.
Published in hardcover by University of New Mexico Press.
This is the third book in a mystery series. Ordinarily I try to avoid coming in in the middle of series, even when the individual volumes are pretty self-contained, as this one is. But this book happens to be set in the town where I live, so I couldn't resist.
The story features Sasha Solomon, a PR consultant who is hired to implement a plan -- one far too ambitious for a town this size, in my opinion -- for building a huge new visitors' center aimed at attracting tourism to Socorro County. But her stay becomes more complicated when her niece, a graduate student, is injured by a bomb in her mailbox. It seems to be a hate crime -- the niece is an Iranian-American Jew -- but it turns out there's more going on than that.
I did enjoy reading this, but it wasn't for the plot. Socorro, New Mexico isn't the kind of place that usually has books written about it, so seeing it as the main setting for a novel was was a lot of fun for me. And the author is clearly reasonably familiar with the town. A few of the tiny details are wrong or out of date, and the characters and events are very fictional, but the locales are generally captured very well and showcased with a level of detail I might even find annoying if it weren't a place I was personally interested in. And it's impossible not to get a kick out of the realization that you and the protagonist of the book you're reading both had lunch in the same restaurant.
Otherwise, though, I have to say that this was only just okay. I read it very quickly, but even so the mystery plot seemed to go slowly, and never developed much in the way of tension. Quite a bit of the book is devoted not so much to the whodunnit aspects, but to dealing with the main character's relationships with her dysfunctional family, whose main occupation seems to be disparaging each other over their religious differences. Which would be fine, except for the fact that I didn't find any of them particularly interesting. Also, there's a weird New Age/supernatural element -- clearly part of an ongoing storyline -- that didn't fit well with this story at all, and had me rolling my eyes every time it came up.
So, yeah, I do recommend this book... but only if you happen to live in Socorro.… (más)
The story features Sasha Solomon, a PR consultant who is hired to implement a plan -- one far too ambitious for a town this size, in my opinion -- for building a huge new visitors' center aimed at attracting tourism to Socorro County. But her stay becomes more complicated when her niece, a graduate student, is injured by a bomb in her mailbox. It seems to be a hate crime -- the niece is an Iranian-American Jew -- but it turns out there's more going on than that.
I did enjoy reading this, but it wasn't for the plot. Socorro, New Mexico isn't the kind of place that usually has books written about it, so seeing it as the main setting for a novel was was a lot of fun for me. And the author is clearly reasonably familiar with the town. A few of the tiny details are wrong or out of date, and the characters and events are very fictional, but the locales are generally captured very well and showcased with a level of detail I might even find annoying if it weren't a place I was personally interested in. And it's impossible not to get a kick out of the realization that you and the protagonist of the book you're reading both had lunch in the same restaurant.
Otherwise, though, I have to say that this was only just okay. I read it very quickly, but even so the mystery plot seemed to go slowly, and never developed much in the way of tension. Quite a bit of the book is devoted not so much to the whodunnit aspects, but to dealing with the main character's relationships with her dysfunctional family, whose main occupation seems to be disparaging each other over their religious differences. Which would be fine, except for the fact that I didn't find any of them particularly interesting. Also, there's a weird New Age/supernatural element -- clearly part of an ongoing storyline -- that didn't fit well with this story at all, and had me rolling my eyes every time it came up.
So, yeah, I do recommend this book... but only if you happen to live in Socorro.… (más)
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 121
- Popularidad
- #164,307
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 8