Wednesday, March 7, 2018

DEAD ON ARRIVAL by Matt Richtel ***

Ok, this is a confusing book to say the least. Most of the characters are well drawn, story told ok, descriptions fine, but the storyline is dysfunctional. It begins with a plane full of people who look dead--the answer is still out on that one. The (pilot, copilot & professor) land to a hangar with no communications and everyone looks dead-again the answer is still out on that one.

The professor, Dr. Lyle, is a PHd world class specialist of infectious diseases but what is going on is NOT related to a virus or anything infectious. It's our phones and radio towers seeming to have this super power to knock everyone on the planet into a knocked out stasis until some will awaken after this Jackie moron pretends she can put them all to sleep and awaken them even if in a car driving and they fall into the drool stasis. She is insane and in love with the professor who is desperately trying to figure her out and stop her.

She puts people into a catatonic state but you never ever find out if they come out of it, how they come out of it, why EVERYONE is affected by radio waves even if they don't own iphones etc. I don't really understand this theory. How can people be knocked out if radios are turned off or they don't own a phone, or the phones are turned off? HUH?

I would love to ask the author these bothersome questions cuz I am confused and head is spinning like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. I'm not puking green.....yet.

So...WTF???

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Y IS FOR YESTERDAY by Sue Grafton *****

I'm always up for reading Sue, like the pace, the murders etc unless they're old cases. I hate old cases. This one was an ongoing one. The thing this time was a lot of characters to learn, 2 of them named for flowers, Poppy and Iris. I guess naming characters has it's moments when you can't come up with something and there on the desk is a flower book. Go Sue. Other names were pretty common and not easy to remember but that's probably just my own pet peeve.

The storyline was good, ok for summer at the beach reading. Better writer than most too.