Joy wrote: I loved this book, Miker, as have all the other
women I've heard mention it. Women even cite him as proof
that, yes, a male author can write a real female character.
Yet male readers seem to hate this series... Joy, who doesn't
recall suspending any disbelief
*************** I thought Nina was a realistic female
character about like Mike Hammer is a realistic male
character. People do stupid things, so I usually don't have a
problem with that, but Nina delivering the briefcase to the
airport is a new apex. But that's nothing compared to her
ability to bounce back from being brutally tortured. That was
just absurd. The only thing close to it I can remember is the
abuse that Kells went through in Paul Cain's FAST ONE.
I could go on and on about what I didn't like about the book.
I didn't find the narrative compelling, nor the dialogue
sharp. The plot was somewhere below mediocre, and all the
characters were forgettable.
Any one or even a small combinations of the above I could
have easily dismissed for one redeeming quality.
I found none.
There was one place I saw in the book that carried potential,
where something interesting could have happened, and that was
her relationship with her dad, and that was resolved in an
encounter that was at least as unimaginative as it was
uncreative.
miker
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