midori-se7en - reviewed on 12/13/2009 + 8 more book reviews

This was a solid read. Not as good as the first book, but still enjoyable. I suspected the killer pretty early on, as I did with the last book, which was kind of disappointing. But there were enough red herrings that I couldn't say who it was with 100% certainty, so it kept me curious until the end. As for that, I did think it seemed a bit rushed, though. Maybe that was just me, but after all the build up, the climax and the resolution felt more like a summary because it all happened within less than 20 pages.

Anyway, I'm still looking forward to reading the next two books in the series.

Another thing that bothered me was the amount of discrepancies I noticed. In the first book, it was clearly stated that Iona was Tolliver's aunt. She even says it when she calls them at one point, something like, "This is Iona. Tolliver's aunt." In the second book, however, Harper says that Iona is her aunt, her mom's sister. In the first book, Mariella was said to be 11, in this one she was 9 and Gracie was 11. In the first book, Iona's husband was named Will and I even think he was called Will in the beginning of this book, but toward the end his name was suddenly Hank. All of the differences, and the other typos I noticed, make it obvious how careless the editing was on these books. In the very least, you would think that as the author and the editor, you would make sure that character names and relationships stay consistent. It's distracting and I hope the trend doesn't continue in the next two books. Did anyone else notice this? Maybe they just assume that people won't read the books back-to-back and won't notice, but it's off-putting for the people who do because it seems so sloppy.

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