Barbara M. reviewed on 10/1/2019 + 147 more book reviews

This is the third book in the Monkeewrench series, which I'm reading in order. I gave the first two books three-star ratings. This book was interesting and a quick read (like the others). I'm not a computer geek but I didn't understand near the end when something was disabled on a computer that it didn't put a stop to what was going to happen. Instead, there was a whole other thing that had to be disabled.

As I said in one of my previous reviews on this series (and as some Amazon reviewers have also noted) many of the characters are "cartoonish" (Annie Belinksy, Road Runner, Harley) and/or one-dimensional. The authors also seem to have limitations in character development--in one of the previous books, there were two Mpls. cops (don't recall their names--Magozzi and Gino, I think), partners who traded witty barbs, etc. In one of the earlier books, there was a similar pair of cops from small-town WI who appeared to be clones of the Mpls. characters. The only thing that was different were their names.

As Amazon reviewers have pointed out, it's odd that all three women left their purses in one of the buildings they stopped in at Four Corners. As a female, I find that to be pretty unbelievable. But, of course, if these gals hadn't done that, the story would be far less interesting.

Even though I (thus far) consider these books to be just OK reads, I will continue (at least for a while) with the series.

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