Post by sturgeon on Dec 31, 2020 17:49:54 GMT
You catch me in a good mood. It's the final day of 2020, and I've just had enough time to myself to read a pleasantly competent cap about an unusual pair of private dicks.
It's not perfect. Specifically, the murder victim was described as "cut to little pieces" yet the explanation later was that the modified wheelchair "worked as a pair of giant pliers, allowing a smaller-sized person to tear Mr. Soledad apart" - which I totally don't buy. And when they gather the suspects together, it's not clear who's in the room, which considerably lessens the impact of the scene. Also, who would confuse fingers on the back of the head for the cold steel of a gun?
And there were a few minor formatting errors, like fullstops at the start of paragraphs, wheel chair being two words, and at least once where McGruber turns into McGruder.
But the thing is, I really liked the characters. And that counts for a lot. The story was competent, the writing ok, but the characters were really fun, particularly the two protagonists.
The bull may be in a different mood altogether, he usually is, but I'm gonna give this a green light.
It's not perfect. Specifically, the murder victim was described as "cut to little pieces" yet the explanation later was that the modified wheelchair "worked as a pair of giant pliers, allowing a smaller-sized person to tear Mr. Soledad apart" - which I totally don't buy. And when they gather the suspects together, it's not clear who's in the room, which considerably lessens the impact of the scene. Also, who would confuse fingers on the back of the head for the cold steel of a gun?
And there were a few minor formatting errors, like fullstops at the start of paragraphs, wheel chair being two words, and at least once where McGruber turns into McGruder.
But the thing is, I really liked the characters. And that counts for a lot. The story was competent, the writing ok, but the characters were really fun, particularly the two protagonists.
The bull may be in a different mood altogether, he usually is, but I'm gonna give this a green light.
