Fire and Fog (Fremont Jones Mysteries, Bk 2)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Helpful Score: 2
Warning, this review contains sarcasm and spoilers.
With this book, the author seemed to write the vast majority of the text without having a clue how she was actually going to wrap it all up. So you read through the book with all of these clues hinting at various things, and then at the end - hmm, how do you wrap things up now? I know!
Ninjas!
Because that totally makes sense with the NONEXISTENT TIE INS FROM THE REST OF THE BOOK. Need a slightly villanous character killed off? Ninjas! Need to explain the threats to our heroine's life that really don't make sense even in context? Ninjas! Need to kill off that minor character who'd completely changed personality between the last book and this one (continuity? What's that?)? NINJAS! Why the heck not. Because everyone knows that San Francisco was swarming with them in 1906, making them a totally valid option. I have to at least give Ms. Day credit for originality. I, for one, might have gone with a secret society that was found in California at that point, or something related to the rest of the plot, but her creativity allows her to look past those banal boundaries, and instead choose ninjas.
With this book, the author seemed to write the vast majority of the text without having a clue how she was actually going to wrap it all up. So you read through the book with all of these clues hinting at various things, and then at the end - hmm, how do you wrap things up now? I know!
Ninjas!
Because that totally makes sense with the NONEXISTENT TIE INS FROM THE REST OF THE BOOK. Need a slightly villanous character killed off? Ninjas! Need to explain the threats to our heroine's life that really don't make sense even in context? Ninjas! Need to kill off that minor character who'd completely changed personality between the last book and this one (continuity? What's that?)? NINJAS! Why the heck not. Because everyone knows that San Francisco was swarming with them in 1906, making them a totally valid option. I have to at least give Ms. Day credit for originality. I, for one, might have gone with a secret society that was found in California at that point, or something related to the rest of the plot, but her creativity allows her to look past those banal boundaries, and instead choose ninjas.
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