Karen S. (CacaoBear) reviewed on 4/28/2024 + 87 more book reviews

I found this book to be very confusing. I'm still not exactly sure what the plot was. It's classified as a mystery, but the only mystery was what the H-E-double-hockey-sticks was going on?!?!?! It started out with a "before section" and then an "after" section, which ended with, "I thought you were dead!". Then it went into the "in between stuff for a couple-hundred pages. Except ... I didn't pick up on the "after" aspect of that second chapter, and I kept wondering what ever happened to the not-dead dead person ... And then ... when the creamy center of the Oreo story line was done and it flipped back to the "after" story, the characters and twists were so hopelessly convoluted that I was completely lost. None of the characters is particularly endearing, so I found I really didn't care what happened to them. The only reason I kept reading is that I couldn't figure out what the twist had to do with the story (such as it was), and I'm still not sure. The book is just under 300 pages, and I'd say a good 60% of it is "filler" - background history of San Fransisco and its politics - that just made the whole thing drag along like a kite on a windless day.

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