Thursday, November 13, 2014

The CATCH by Taylor Stevens ***

Well not at all a murder mystery. This is a hijacked boat with a guy/girl running most of the stuff going on. She's so freaking tough most guys believe she IS a guy. This is all taking place in 3rd world countries and a boat gets hijacked by Somali pirates that Vanessa "Michael" Monroe has to cope with the villain and friendlies to correct everything the gun runners started.

She's so tough and rugged and manly she can shoot her way out of anyplace. She knows more about guns than seduction. When she gets hurt you don't stop hearing about her fatigue and pain at all. It's constant throughout the book, gets monotonous. What I hated was that. Tell Mrs. Tough Guy to shut TF up and get the job done without all the pain whining. She has lots of drugs so pain should stop entirely being an issue.

This is not a book I would select if I knew it had no murders involved. It sounded intriguing but I wouldn't personally recommend it to a mystery reader. One reason I didn't like it is that it's 90% narrative. Not a don't tell, show sort of thing, mostly a tell and tell and tell. On and on. That's my take on it anyway.

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