Hooked on Books

Reading this book after reading Pines by Blake Crouch was like taking a dose of NyQuil. It brought me down real fast. It's a crime thriller about FBI Agent Rick Clark who is searching for a murderer they call the Bedsheet Serial Killer. If crime thrillers/police procedurals aren't written well they can be very dry and boring. Unfortunately that was the case here so I just couldn't get into it. For one, there were various grammatical errors. For example, the author wrote "dosed off" instead of "dozed off."

Also, the prose wasn't very elegant at all. It felt amateurish and unrefined. Take this sentence for example: "Leaning over the toilet, he watched the yellow vomit swirl around in the bowl before disappearing with a gurgle down the hole." I personally don't care to hear about the color of vomit or how it goes down a toilet. Need I say more?

Lastly, there wasn't a whole lot of cohesiveness from chapter to chapter. There were several times I found myself backtracking to see if I missed something. I gave up about midway through because I couldn't bear to trudge through it any longer.  I definitely think it needs a lot more work and an editor's touch.

*I won this book from Booklikes in exchange for an honest review.