I'm a chapter into this right now. It seems written for young adults or unsophisticated readers. The main character who is a female, single mother cop describes stuff as if the reader is a child.
A guy runs in front of her off duty car, her driver (also her partner -how convenient) stops in time, they see him bleed to death. Then page after page goes on and on about how it "may" have happened. 'He probably cut himself accidently, or maybe was drunk or maybe did some pills, or maybe there was someone else who hit him on the head. Or maybe that person covered his tracks, or maybe it's related to the company he works for. Or maybe maybe.' There are all those scenarios and I'm on page 45. You can only imagine my future.
Some old bat almost gets T-boned pulling out in front of a cruiser and no one gets a ticket. Matter of fact the cops molly coddle her back into the street. Yeah. So real. Also so real, small time PD and every cop is on every scene helping but seems our main character does nothing but drive around, she's not the chief but she gets all the reports and works directly with an FBI agent who is, at best slow, at worst a moron who needs HER help. The head of security's name: "Mr. VIGIL" Haha, who is not very vigilant. Other names are hard to separate in some sentences, "Dawn was brushing Wind and Boots came around the corner." And funniest of all is a local gang called "The Fierce Ones." Sadly it gets funnier.
The writing is immature. Lots of religious myth stuff, talismans, crystal balls and Navaho culture. The book protrays the entire Navaho people as stunted or ignorant. They don't say each others' name (which gets confusing..'my brother did that'--ok how many brothers you got and which one), they don't knock on doors, they stand around till the homeowner notices them. The characters are undeveloped personality-wise. There are physical descriptions but the internal stuff isn't even briefly touched on. No one has any specific character traits to define them.
There's supposedly low funding yet the PD wastes time to fingerprint fireworks? Wow! And they get sneaker and tire drawings at stupid low crime calls. There are always at least 4 cops at a scene if not more. There are so many nuisance crimes thru the entire book and they send 2 cops, plus gather evidence, take prints, I don't understand how anything ever gets solved. They call each other for a prowler; FBI, her, 2 other cops show up while cops are guarding people, scenes and houses all over town. I mean it's very Keystone Cops. Not bad for unintended comedy relief.
Pages and pages are bogged down with picky ante crime crap, no one EVER gets caught doing ANYthing and I'm past 250 pages. They can't even find one criminal with 10 stupid things happening daily. Give them a silent movie, put them all in one car and speed them down the road waving batons.
For all the people scurrying around like ants getting car tracks, foot prints, fingerprints, license plates, they can't even track phone calls. Nothing ever results in police work being the lead to any criminal. Plus, another person dies because these "cops" (so called), are too dumb to do their job. Also there is no remorse or sadness about this death.
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