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I wanted to like this book, I truly did. It has some great potential: a crew of ghost hunters! Set in New Orleans! But somehow, the author's matter-of-fact rendering of NOLA makes you feel as though you may as well be reading about Peoria, Illinois. Descriptions of scenery and local color are sterile, rather than evocative. The story goes too fast to build up an effective feeling of suspense. And two of the main characters hop into bed pretty quick, when frankly there was very little believable
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I found this on a free book swap shelf. I picked it because it fit my "read on the train" criteria: paperback, lightweight, easy to read in short chunks in a distracting environment, and nothing that I would mind losing/damaging.
In applying this rigorous standard of review, I failed to notice that it was a romance novel (published by an imprint of Harlequin) masquerading as a mystery/thriller.
Imagine my surprise when I'm reading along and realize that much more time is being devoted to the main ...more
In applying this rigorous standard of review, I failed to notice that it was a romance novel (published by an imprint of Harlequin) masquerading as a mystery/thriller.
Imagine my surprise when I'm reading along and realize that much more time is being devoted to the main ...more
