Rating: 1 star (out of 5)
Genre: fiction
Challenge: 100 Book Challenge 2011
Review: A simply-told tale can be a good thing. A simplistically told story, on the other hand, is usually not a good thing, and that, unfortunately, is what we have here. The language is simplistic. The characterization is simplistic. The dialogue is simplistic. The plot is simplistic! It felt more like reading a comic book without the drawings than reading a novel.
Add to that was the question of what kind of book this book was supposed to be. Was it supposed to be an attack-recovery story (in which case it was too pat to be convincing) or a thriller (in which case it was not at all thrilling)? Making it even harder to figure out was that there was no believable connection between the two parts of the story. I wish I could say that McConkey would have done better to decide what kind of book this was supposed to be and stuck with that, but since neither part was very good, I don't think it would have helped.
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