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So... after reading Plainsong and Eventide, I moved on to Come Home by Lisa Scottoline.
It was a bad move.
First let me say that I've read most if not all of Lisa Scottoline's books, and I like most of them. This one, however, is far below par. It was over-written and populated with whiney people, the whiniest of which is the heroine, who consistently did dumb things even after, sometimes, thinking them through first. Having just spent a week with Keith Haruf's sparse, external books and pragmatic characters, reading Coming Home felt like swimming though mush. Yuck. I hope Lisa Scottoline gets back to form before she writes her next book.
It was a bad move.
First let me say that I've read most if not all of Lisa Scottoline's books, and I like most of them. This one, however, is far below par. It was over-written and populated with whiney people, the whiniest of which is the heroine, who consistently did dumb things even after, sometimes, thinking them through first. Having just spent a week with Keith Haruf's sparse, external books and pragmatic characters, reading Coming Home felt like swimming though mush. Yuck. I hope Lisa Scottoline gets back to form before she writes her next book.