This is my first Jimmy Perez book, so perhaps I would have liked him more if I'd met him earlier in the book series. He didn't seem to be very effective, and I much preferred his partner, Willow, who is basically storming the policing whilst very heavily pregnant.
There's a good sense of place and community, and the things I enjoyed most were the bits of island life and the multitude of characters. I knew who everyone was, despite there being so many of them to try to keep track of.
The plot winds along slowly, and I felt that Perez wasn't really detecting, but more stumbling over clues accidentally. The suspense did build, and I did enjoy the book, but I felt that the reveal was a curve-ball, and that left me nudging this down from a 4 star to a 3 star. It felt like a sudden leap towards social commentary (and it's something we should all be thinking about and talking about) but for me, it came out of nowhere.
I would read another in the series, but I would be secretly hoping for Willow to take the lead!
With thanks to Net Galley and the publishers for my review copy.
There's a good sense of place and community, and the things I enjoyed most were the bits of island life and the multitude of characters. I knew who everyone was, despite there being so many of them to try to keep track of.
The plot winds along slowly, and I felt that Perez wasn't really detecting, but more stumbling over clues accidentally. The suspense did build, and I did enjoy the book, but I felt that the reveal was a curve-ball, and that left me nudging this down from a 4 star to a 3 star. It felt like a sudden leap towards social commentary (and it's something we should all be thinking about and talking about) but for me, it came out of nowhere.
I would read another in the series, but I would be secretly hoping for Willow to take the lead!
With thanks to Net Galley and the publishers for my review copy.
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