Helpful Score: 1
Looking back I realized I haven't liked Hoag's books for quite a while and this one is no different.
The first 50 pages are all about her new cold case partner fighting over what case to start with, her family problems with her ex and her old partners with a new partner and on and on, by page 50 I was skipping, a crime finally did happen but then it was pages and pages of describing it over and over and what is the purpose of that? It just gets very boring really fast and the characters just didn't draw me into the story.
I guess I'm done with Hoag, she'll fall into the same pile as Nora Roberts and many others that I just don't read anymore as their writing as gone down hill for me.
The first 50 pages are all about her new cold case partner fighting over what case to start with, her family problems with her ex and her old partners with a new partner and on and on, by page 50 I was skipping, a crime finally did happen but then it was pages and pages of describing it over and over and what is the purpose of that? It just gets very boring really fast and the characters just didn't draw me into the story.
I guess I'm done with Hoag, she'll fall into the same pile as Nora Roberts and many others that I just don't read anymore as their writing as gone down hill for me.
I loved Tami Hoag's The 9th Girl, but this one was disappointing in the end.
At first The Bitter Season starts off interestingly enough with Kovac and Liska now working separately on different cases. Kovac's still working homicide with a new partner; and being a single mother, Liska wants to be home more to raise her teenage sons, so she's working cold cases...and it really felt like this story point was on the repetitive side. We get it: Nikki's working cold cases now because her sons need her to be home more.
So the book essentially takes you step-by-step through these two investigations as Kovac and Liska slowly make their way to discovering whodunnit. Lots of gruesome, over-the-top bloody scenes later, the reveals happen, and it just didn't fly with me. It was too contrived vs. clever. And I much prefer clever. C+
At first The Bitter Season starts off interestingly enough with Kovac and Liska now working separately on different cases. Kovac's still working homicide with a new partner; and being a single mother, Liska wants to be home more to raise her teenage sons, so she's working cold cases...and it really felt like this story point was on the repetitive side. We get it: Nikki's working cold cases now because her sons need her to be home more.
So the book essentially takes you step-by-step through these two investigations as Kovac and Liska slowly make their way to discovering whodunnit. Lots of gruesome, over-the-top bloody scenes later, the reveals happen, and it just didn't fly with me. It was too contrived vs. clever. And I much prefer clever. C+
