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The Rented Mule (2014)

by Bobby Cole(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

review 1: This was an interesting read - started slowly, but as I progressed through the story, it did grab my attention sufficiently so that I finished it, and actually stayed up longer than I had planned to read, just to finish it. So the author is a fairly good story-teller. Some of the situations were awkwardly, or unrealistically contrived but overall - it was a good gripping tale...with ONE exception. The author used a stylistic tool that annoyed the living daylights out of me, and i couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why it was used. Cole attempted to represent the dialect in a speech pattern that did not seem to match his characters, certainly not all of them. He dropped "g's" constantly, as in "he was readin' " or "won't be botherin' us ", and used words throughou... moret like "gonna" and "dontcha". The language did not match most of his characters and distracted from my enjoyment of the story because it called attention to the language and not the story.
review 2: I read mostly Heroic Fantasy, but since this book was offered free for my Prime Membership I decided to give it a try. I enjoyed the story and the character development. I guess I am a simple reader and enjoy a book for the story. I do not try to pick the book apart and wonder why the author did what he did, or said what he said. I enjoy reading for the entertainment.Did the book drag in places? Did the author repeat himself? Did the dialog make sense? I guess I didn't pay that kind of attention to those details. Does the storyline drag in places? Sure. There were scenes that I wish were quicker to get thru, but could they have been eliminated from the story? I don't know. Did the author repeat himself? Sure, most authors do. I know I had read some of the storyline two or three times or the description of someone's background or reason for doing something, but most authors that I read do that as a reminder of certain facts that may or may not be important as the story develops.Now I must say that the dialog did bother me. It seemed that most characters would talk in what I would call a normal cadence to their words and then all of a sudden a word like "chirren," for children, was tossed in there to make it sound as if the speaker was uneducated or possibly just speaking the way that some southern person may speak. I don't know the reason for disrupting the dialog like that, but it did trip me up as I was reading the sentences. I found myself backing up to see if the whole sentence was written in the same type of speech, which slowed down the reading even more so.This book, however, was a good story. I enjoyed the characters, I had picked several of them as the actual antagonist, and I found the action sections fast and hard to put down. I even recommended the book to my wife since she likes the books by John Grisham. less

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