Killing Club, The by Marcie Walsh, Michael Malone Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Killing Club, The
Book Review: The Killing Club
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for myself and my husband. Marcie Walsh is on my Soap, and I wanted to be able to go along with the book and the Soap. My husband is the reader, so he read it, I didn't. He said it was very good.Book Review: The Killing Club captures your attention!
Summary: 4 Stars
The story itself is very original and different in the aspect that a killer is killing the friends in very methodical ways; by actually going off of the deaths that they imagined when they were simple adolescents. The club was founded in an old abandoned theatre, went on for a couple years until each member was never heard from again . . . until one of them died. Jaime, the main character of the story, has a good head on her shoulders, juggling her handicapped father and her rogue brother, all while surviving the daily small town routines, solving crimes, and getting ready to marry her dream man. But, when the crimes take on a personal nature, then it really is a game of cat and mouse. Every person involved in the club starts coming out of the woodworks so that jaime can narrow down who is doing the killings and why they are doing it.
Some scenes were predictable but it had it's own flavor to it. Definetly a re-readble book. Although, hearing it read on this Cd felt a bit monotoned and it was hard keeping track of some of the dialogue becuase there was just barely a change in the voice. But that could just be me. Other than that, really enjoyed it.
Makes me want to read the book now, just to go back over it.
Book Review: Boring
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a pretty standard mystery without much to surprise a reader of these things. The protagonist is a tough lady detective. The murders are imaginative. The flashbacks are standard fare.
Really without the soap opera tie-in, there's nothing to distinguish this book from a thousand other mysteries coming out the same year. Buy only if you love these cliches (and some do) but even then be prepared for boredom.
Book Review: WARNING TO CHRISTIANS
Summary: 1 Stars
Talk about PC. The authors portray lesbians as cloyingly sweet. Christians, having fallen outside the protective barrier of approved groups, are portrayed as evil, greedy, and, of course, mentally ill. If you are a Christian, find another mystery book to read. Book Review: Predictable and formulaic
Summary: 3 Stars
I did not realize when I bought this that it was a gimmick; i.e, written in conjunction with a soap opera. If I had, I probably would not have bought it and saved myself 3 hours that could have been spent reading something else. The characters were sterotypes, and I didn't like any of them except for Amanda (she was the only one who seemed to have any real personality.) The ending was predictable-- I figured it had to be the person that was being most completely ignored as a suspect and not the one that Jamie was convinced was the murderer or the one whom the author was quite obviously trying to point the reader toward (I don't want to give the ending away.)
That aside, I had a hard time getting past the ethical issues of the Police Detective, Jamie, investigating a case in which she had an obvious personal connection-- her main suspect is related to her by marriage, and she has a huge grudge against him-- and the fact that she was engaged to marry her boss- although why, I can't figure out as she really didn't seem to like him very much and treated him like dirt. A professional police officer would have recused herself from the investigation-- her excuse that she outranked Danny was flimsy at best.
While I didn't find the constant crude language as much of a turn off as some of the other reviewers have mentioned, I felt it was more for shock value than anything else-- let's show how tough Jamie is by having her throw the "s" word and the "f" word around a lot.
All that being said, I did like one thing and that is that Jamie was capable of taking care of herself, particularly at the end when she came face to face with the killer. Too many times authors have female detectives doing really stupid things, like leaving their cell phones at home, to set up a situation that puts the heroine in danger. I appreciated the author giving Jamie the dignity of being able to get herself out of the situation without a knight in white armor riding to the rescue. Because of that, I'll give it 3 stars instead of the 1 or 2 it probably deserves.