Puerile story, sophomoric prose
Puerile story, sophomoric prose. Thought Ted had it after reading the first chapter or so in the bookstore, but I was halfway through the novel before realizing this is pulpy nonsense. He does know how to stay with a character viewpoint though, so at least he has that over many of today's lousy authors including Grisham, Patterson, Cornwell, et al.How many of us have time for story content that is riddled with cliche after poorly drawn cliche, slow development, hacked and wooden characters, stilted dialogue? If you do, enjoy Ted Bell. I simply have another author to avoid. At least the list of great authors is getting smaller and easier: they are Scott Turow, Michael Robotham, Stephen King, Audrey Niffenegger, Thomas Harris. A few more. Not Ted Bell, though. Sorry.