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Book Review of Bones of Coral

Bones of Coral
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Helpful Score: 1


This is a strange book. A great mystery which keeps you guessing but over half the book involves Dougie Barnes, one of the main characters who is a total whack job. To some degree, he is retarded and spent his early years in mental institutions. He's close to thirty and just learning to read so he practices on porno novels. His speech is littered with porn-speak and is very offensive. A good portion of the book involves kinky sex and it gets very irritating and IMO unnecessary to the storyline. Just way out there for no apparent reason.

The romance between Shaw Chandler and Trula Montoya is quick. After 20 years apart, they instantly fall into bed together and fall in love. This is surprising and it's very obvious that the author doesn't do romance - kinda stilted and unreal. Though it sets up the I will do anything for you scenario used later in the book. Another book that had I actually had to read it, I would have given up on it very quickly. Listening to it is a lot easier to handle.