Friday, May 21, 2010

STILL MIDNIGHT by Denise Mina **

Around page 50 and this is a sample of her style which is irritating:
Paragraph begins with Pat and stuff he did in the past, next about Eddy and him running, next must have flashback about coke, missus leaving Eddy, next coke being cut with something and there's a boy. (Where are we? Why? WTF is going on?) next the boy hit Eddy? (I can't be sure it's so disjointed), next para. Eddy off balance (mentally? yup physically? guess so) next para. the very very past about Pat rallying when Eddys wife left and lost jobs, next para. Walking in mud (present?) Malki smoking a fag (I didn't know the gays were smokable), next para.  Pat grabs Malki? This is her style. Back and forth, up and down. You're a yoyo. Past and present, future and present, hopping from one person to the next.

So far it's about some coke heads who kidnap an asian from Scotland. Yup. Makes sense to me too! Esp. since they were looking for BOB and everyone else is saying they were looking for ROBBIE. WTF?

And so it goes.
So it's a flippin English bird writer. What's a 'scheme' dipshit? I have no clue but it's something to do with a neighborhood. Do I care?

So you never learn anything about Morrows baby dying. You never learn about the problems she's having with her husband. Or why she hates him until his finger touches her. LOL

You never learn why the criminals selected these people to kidnap and ransom. I thought stories had beginning, middle and end. No end in sight and I'm all done reading the trash. I've never ended a book so pissed off there isn't an ending to anything PLUS some asshole kidnapper age 28 is happily pursuing a 17 year old with the author's blessing. COME ON ARSEHOLE.

No comments:

Post a Comment