Wow. Just...wow. This was a free Kindle read, and I didn't read it as much as skim. It is so poorly written that I kept marveling that it was ever published. The main character is a probation officer/law student/single mother dynamo, the kind of probation officer who isn't afraid to lock herself in a room with a violent killer to get the truth. Characters repeatedly comment on how she's the one to get the job done and no one else can do it.The other characters have little personality and in the middle of a crucial scene with dialogue, the book will digress into pages and pages of backstory that has little to do with the plot. The brother's girlfriend is particularly ridiculous, with pages of endless flashbacks, and you never know whether she was telling the truth or not. There is the self-involved mother, the druggie brother, and the no-good boyfriend, along with the no-good ex-boyfriend. The ending was more laughable than a Hollywood summer feature, and throughout the book I honestly was rooting more for the villain than the main character, plutonium bomb and all.Why did I keep reading? To see if it could truly get any worse (it did).
In this novel, Carolyn Sullivan, a probation officer and law student, has to help her brother Neil get out of trouble. An artsy type, Neil calls Carolyn to tell her that his girlfriend was found dead in a pool. After she finds out a family secret, she begins to have doubts about Neil's innocence. All the same, she is determined to help her brother.This was a solid if unspectacular novel. The writing was competent and professional. There were no major plot holes in the novel. At the same time, there was nothing especially Earth shattering about it either. It was a fairly pedestrian thriller with nothing to distinguish it from many of the other thrillers that I have read recently. Although entertaining, this wasn't a deep read.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
What do You think about Sullivan's Justice (2006)?
This had some discrepancies. What is written in the begining of the book doesn't make sense with the ending when it comes to one of the killers. This killer is believed to be a towering, strong, thin male in a leather jacket and motorcycle helmet. He speaks to the victim in his real and undisguised voice (as noted by the author). The victim is convinced he wants to rape her and she throws under garments at him thinking it might turn him on so he will just rape her instead of killing her. The ref
—Lani
Good book had some great parts. Lots of good characters, twists and turns that kept my interests. I like the fact this book was able to stand alone even though it's book #2 in a series. I did not feel like I was missing too much from not reading #1. Other than a bit of history of Brad and Carolyn. I do feel like it there were too many subplots to the story. I feel the story of Carolyn's father's death could have been a book of its own. (Now won't I be embarrassed if I found it is! :) ) I wanted to feel more from that situation. Sullivan's Justice was a good book and now I am moving on to Book #3.
—VLynch
