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Unforeseen (2000)

by Nick Pirog(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Alex Tooms Inc.

review 1: Wow! This book started slowly, but sucked me in quickly. I couldn't it put it down. Some spoilers here.Thomas Prescott is a retired cop who is now an FBI consultant. He gets tapped to help with a string of murders occurring in October in Maine, where all the victims are women and are brutally murdered and chopped into pieces. The "murderer" is killed one night in a confrontation with Thomas. But a year later, Thomas is still convinced that the man who was killed was not the real murder. No one believes in his instinct until the killings begin again - on the same day the first woman was killed the previous year.The chase to catch the killer is fast-paced and not, at the same time. Thomas takes one step forward in a break-through, then is totally blind-sided (unintended pun)... more by the killer. There are several unexpected plot twists (maybe I'm dense, but I didn't see them coming) and the end is more than satisfactory.Having said all that, here's why I couldn't rate it higher. This was the author's first novel and he was 22 when he wrote it. Thomas is supposed to be 34, but his speech and actions are those of a - you guessed it! - 22-year-old. I was so annoyed at his frat boy, asshole attitude/actions in the opening pages that I almost stopped reading. But, the murder plot was so intriguing that stuck with it and I was glad I did. The author says that he knows the book "is crass and the ending is rushed" and that he's matured as writer. I liked this enough that I'm willing to give his next book a read.Warning - the murders are extremely gruesome!
review 2: Picked this one up for free on Kindle. Was a bit hesitant as they really felt the need to emphasis how many copies had been sold in the blurb, and there were a few bad reviews, but I decided to give it a go. Overall, I'm satisfied with that decision. The first probably 20% was filled with way to many one-liner jokes, and Thomas Prescott is an ass (spoiler: he doesn't really get any better). The story was slow and the jumping backwards and forwards in time very poorly done. But once Lacey called about the practical joke it got WAY better. The story-line finally became interesting and I was actually keen to know the answer. Prescott redeemed himself at a few points, and then went back to his idiotic ways (side note: are all the women in this story also idiots? I think not, but they way they acted around him? So not believable, Mr Pirog). Basic grammatical and syntactic errors often got in the way of the story, and a few descriotions were very murky (like where did the Ashley girl come from? She was introduced out of nowhere in the middle (fawning all over Prescott, of course, and I didn't really give two hoots about what happened to her. Her death just seemed like a filler before we got to the end of the month). But the actual mystery was good and had me hooked. It was well-plotted and full of great twists. So overall a 4/5. less

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