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Thursday, March 28, 2019

The Fire Maker by Peter May

The Fire Maker by Peter May
A tolerable book. I was able to finish it, though the last chapter was a bit of a struggle. There were just too many stupid things in that last chapter, things that didn't make sense. Overall though it's well put together, and it's pretty smooth, not as smooth as say, sailing down a stretch of new asphalt pavement in a new car, more like driving down a gravel road in a pickup truck, there's this constant low grade rumble.

The biggest problem is that it reads like a script for a standard run-of-the-mill cop show. It's got all the expected elements, but there isn't really much of a story. We learn a little bit about the characters, but the story is mostly a sequence of events. I guess this should be expected, the author has written like a zillion screen plays for cop shows.

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