Recently
this was available on sale or for free so I got it and read it. I know
Amazon is a bit like the Empire these days, but you can sign up for both
BookBub and for Amazon's newsletters to be let known about deals. The
other thing to do is just occasionally Google free Kindle books.
Anyway,
sometimes the free/cheap deals work out .... and sometimes they don't.
This time, it worked out okay. The main character is from a family of
private investigators from Palo Alto that works on corporate espionage
in Silicon Valley, mostly. Until the main character, Lee Alvarez,
stumbles over a dead body. It's a pretty good set up and a pretty good
story. It was entertaining, and despite what the cover looks like, she's
not always running around in short skirts and losing her high heels.
She is from a well-to-do family (half Mexican and half WASP), so you do
get good clothing descriptions and cool technology. She's gotta computer
geek brother. She's nosy and can't keep anything alone. She's
intelligent and knows her job. She knows a lot of investigation is leg
work. It's nice to have a blend of Bay Area socialite and
immigrant-makes-good in the main character's background.
On
the other hand, there were some hiccups. I had a hard time getting past
the first chapter. Took me a few tries. I liked it enough to want to
keep trying, but for some reason, I kept stumbling over the sentences
and descriptions. They didn't flow and it was confusing and it took a
couple of tries to get past that.
After
that, it was fine, mostly. There were a couple of continuity issues
(January in the Bay Area sunset time was one issue that threw me off
during a particular scene). And a few other moments where I felt pulled
out of the story because of inconsistency or something that felt off.
But I mostly like it. I would give it a solid 3.5 out of 5, especially
if it's on special or free.
1 comment:
Good title. I'm not a big mystery reader.
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