Sunday, December 29, 2013

The SHADOW RACER by Meg Gardiner ****

The story begins with Sarah running away from a burning house containing the body of her sister, she is running with the dead sister's baby Zoe. That's your set up. When typing the title I'm wondering what the hell that means in relation to any part of the book. Not a fuckin thing.

Meanwhile as time goes by and Sarah changes her name etc, she works as a skip tracer. A school bus is in an accident and the hospital spots a chip or RFID like you put in dogs in Zoe and compare blood samples saying it's not her kid (sisters and their kids would pretty much be similar/bloodwise unless they are stepsisters which they are not). Do not believe. Her daddy belonged to some super strange religious cult with like ten members in it and supposedly daddy died the day of the fire because Sarah shot him.

So the cult is made up of crazies, (isn't that normal for a cult?) then they somehow find out about Zoe being alive and her chip contains way more information than a dog's chip, like she's a super computer chip kid with bank accounts and stuff like all the people's names from the cult (all ten of them and their kids). Some of the FBI or cops are inherently nasty creatures calling her a killer of her sister and chasing her down like a dog or using her as bait. Who would actually do that without her permission? Anyways, one cop is on her side a Marshall of some sort but meantime she and a friend or two are on the run, helping each other and the marshall is helping (in a limited way of course, he's never around during the terrifying moments she endures till the last minute) and on and on she runs with throwaway phones but the cult is smarter than her of course and it all comes to a showdown in some podunk town full of dead airplanes near Rosewell NM. That's all folks. I found it a little over the top in believability, hell I was told over and over by editors that Backyard Dog was hard to accept the suspension of disbelief. Where are you now editors? This book is rank with suspension of disbelief.

That's my take on it. Recommend library or borrow. And welcome to suspending your disbelief.

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