Life is too short to dwell on disappointing novels, so I'm going to be brief. I finished reading Paul Christopher's "Michelangelo's Notebook" on Friday, which took me 15 days total. It wasn't a difficult read, but I didn't care enough to pick it up outside my designated 'reading time', and some of my reading time was spent with other things... like Twitter, and even Facebook. You know it's bad when Facebook is a more captivating read than your current novel!
Finn Ryan, to me, was barely more than a sex toy in this story. She was right in the middle of all the action, but not really driving any of the story. I have a hard time seeing how a series could be built around a character who is essentially the sexy sidekick, so it was disappointing. Beyond the painfully misogynistic portrayal of the alleged heroine, this book was absolutely littered with product placement. Honestly, I didn't even recognize half the brand names used to describe a character's appearance! As an occasional description it can really make a character, but because it is used so often, it doesn't really add anything to the story, which is why I found it annoying. It tells me more about the author than the individual characters.
So, I'm not going to be rushing to read the rest of the series any time soon, although I won't rule out picking one up someday in the future if I have nothing else to read. It wasn't horrible, just not as good as I had hoped it would be. Another customer told me the Andy McDermott "Nina Wilde" series is better, so I may try that out sometime. I'm currently taking a mini-fiction break, reading "Love Times Three" by the Darger's, which is very interesting and quite well written. I'm nearly finished, though, and my next fiction read is the first book in Kelly Meding's MetaWars series, "Trance" - which I'm really looking forward to!
Happy reading!
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