Feature and Follow Friday #5: Book I Hate

Feature and Follow Friday is hosted by fellow bloggers Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday they feature one or two bloggers and pose a question for other participating bloggers to answer. It’s a chance to find some new blogs to visit, and gain some new followers in return. This week’s featured blogger is Pinker Than Fiction Reviews! So take a moment to head on over there and check them out!

Here’s this week’s question for participants: Name a book you hated

Description: The disappearance of an attractive young woman plunges a small Texas town into a frenzy of paranoia and recrimination. With each day Ester remains missing, the accusations and rumors grow wilder and more outrageous. Assistant DA Diane Marshall and her husband, Deputy Max Konstantin, investigate the usual leads, including the unorthodox tenets of Ester’s conservative Christian sect and her father’s peculiar business dealings. Mounting forensic evidence and a chilling eyewitness account suggest that Ester is the victim of abduction and satanic ritual murder. When the witness names the deputy sheriff as the murderer, the townspeople reach the brink of hysteria. The labyrinthine plot of this singular crime drama probes themes of faith and prayer, forensic investigation, moral panic, mass delusion, and false memory.

I hated this book with such a passion. First of all, this is proof that highly intelligent and educated people do not always make great fictional authors. There are so many criminal psychological profiles and terms being used that it’s beyond ridiculous. Further more, there are random religious issues being thrown in the middle of this case of a missing young woman. Something about genetically perfect bred cows and Jewish people? It’s a complete cluster fuck and had this author actually read any fictional pieces in the past, they may have realized that sometimes the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) method typically is better received than tossing out every intellectual reference you can throw out. Basically, it reads as if the author is trying to prove how smart they are.

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