This book disappointed me after what seemed like a great crime-thriller from the First impression.
By the end I felt Sam Blake has written a passable crime thriller but it takes a good half of the book for the pace to pick up, and lots of it reads like he has plucked ideas from the standard tropes of the genre and changed the names around.
It's set in a town in Ireland but apart from the geo-specific job titles and names it really could have been set in anywhere.
As a reader I found the lack of setting details and slow pace in the first half made it tricky to stick with the story.Also for a lot of it the computer-angle(arguably the USP of this book) seemed to take more of a side-line for much of the story.
(The constant alluding to feelings between the lead and her commander got old quick when nothing much happens but it is mentioned very frequently-not sure why it was included other than to fit some imagined criteria)
When the twists and turns of the criminal investigation start to get going around 2/3 of the way through it picks up a bit, so I stuck with it but it doesn't really live up to that standards of similar crime novels I've read unfortunately.
By the end I felt Sam Blake has written a passable crime thriller but it takes a good half of the book for the pace to pick up, and lots of it reads like he has plucked ideas from the standard tropes of the genre and changed the names around.
It's set in a town in Ireland but apart from the geo-specific job titles and names it really could have been set in anywhere.
As a reader I found the lack of setting details and slow pace in the first half made it tricky to stick with the story.Also for a lot of it the computer-angle(arguably the USP of this book) seemed to take more of a side-line for much of the story.
(The constant alluding to feelings between the lead and her commander got old quick when nothing much happens but it is mentioned very frequently-not sure why it was included other than to fit some imagined criteria)
When the twists and turns of the criminal investigation start to get going around 2/3 of the way through it picks up a bit, so I stuck with it but it doesn't really live up to that standards of similar crime novels I've read unfortunately.