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Bright Futures (2009)

by Stuart M. Kaminsky(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0765318288 (ISBN13: 9780765318282)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Forge Books

series

Lew Fonesca

review 1: This is the first Kaminsky book I have ever read and the first in this series. I found the character of Lew Fonseca intriguing, but the overall mystery was not intense enough for my liking. I guess, mystery can be light hearted and less dark as in other mysteries I have read. So, if you like the lighter side of mystery Kaminsky does a good job. I hope to read the books previous to this one. However, not reading it in order did not create a mess in my mind-the past was lightly touched upon. Definitely a different kind of read. I guess we can all do with the lighter side of a mystery. Now, I want to make this clear-it is not like an Agatha Christie book-which nowadays are considered tame.
review 2: Unlike most other reviewers, I found this book extremely dissatis... morefying. If I hadn't spent an Audible credit on it, I wouldn't have finished it. The writing is cumbersome in many places, and while I agree with other reviewers that many characters are 'quirky,' they weren't much else besides that. Not sympathetic or interesting. The main character's motivation seemed inconsistent and unbelievable - he's been beat up, but then asks something that's supposed to be cute and endearing. In one paragraph, the author goes from mourning the dead wife to a "cute" joke. The plot was uninteresting and not suspenseful. The victim is supposedly a pedophile conservative businessman, but everything we hear about him is from other people, and with the lighthearted overall tone, we don't get the idea that the murder is very important. All in all, this was a lousy mystery. less

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