This book was easy to put down, and I finished it out of a vague curiosity only, not because I truly cared what happened to the characters. They are thereby able to achieve a 'storybook' ending (that is no more believable than the rest of the book), but their motives for the extreme recklessness are never explained. Near the end, the main characters take enormous risks with their lives and futures by engaging in illegal and dangerous activities in Mexico, when it would have made more sense to walk away and let poetic justice take its course. until one realizes that they are doing them because it is convenient for the writers. work.Ĭharacters do a lot of things for reasons that are hard to fathom at all. These types of problems made the book a lot of work to read. The point of view changes radically, jarringly, even in the middle of action sequences. There are way too many names given, for stock characters who are about to be killed. She lives in a million dollar home (a detached single-family dwelling in Santa Monica), with no explanation given as to why she is that wealthy.

Naturally, she has multiple therapeutic specialities-working with children, helping PTSD patients-and has an 'academic' background. She has to have this pointed out to her by a therapist, even though she supposedly has an academic background and is a therapist herself.

Although supposedly a smart adult, she is unable to place responsibility on the guy-who wore no wedding ring and implied he was free. That mistake could have been fixed easily, by transferring all that action to the Venice Pier, but the authors simply didn't care.Ī woman has a fling and is seized by guilt when she finds out that her booty call is married and has two kids. The Huntington Beach Pier is moved to Los Angeles-not just the county, but the city, and into LAPD jurisdiction.

They call Pacific Coast Highway 'Highway 1,' whereas most Angelenos don't use that term for that thoroughfare anywhere south of the split from the 101.

They drive all over the place but never get caught in any traffic (even at dusk on Halloween). The writers may have visited Los Angeles a couple of times, but they know little about what it is like to live here. Most plot turns were predictable those that were not related to storylines I'd stopped caring about at all. For reasons unknown, this book was written with two plots that have no relationship to each other.

Campfire by james patterson