June 16th, 2013 – Book: ‘Good People’ by Marcus Sakey
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.16, 2013, under Books
Good People by Marcus Sakey
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I hate it when I know the ending early in a book. It happened again. Why couldn’t the author had peopled the book with more people and elements to make it, at least, a bit difficult to know where the book was going??? There were complications that were nice surprises, but still mostly fillers to get to the conclusion. Which leads to….
The other complaint I have, almost consistently with recent authors – Too much excess needlessness. I get working out character motivation. But the emotional pablum is tedious. Obviously the publishers are demanding meaningless gunk pumping up the page count. There should be more actual story – and, thus, harder to figure out the ending.
The writing is OK, though obvious work is done to insert certain wording to give the book a pulp feel. The characters are well written. Each is distinct and the best part of the reading experience.
I was also disappointed with the ending. Especially after finishing ‘Home Invasion’ by the William Johnstone clan. Seems to me the Johnstone motto is something like: ‘Anything goes, but end with a great story”. Author Sakey should mine some Johnstone logic – if an editor will let him.
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