Tess Gerritsen, "The Mephisto Club"
Jul. 21st, 2011 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stapsreadsA silly book. Or perhaps not silly so much as trying to encompass two genres, where in the one certain things are assumed to be true and in the other they are assumed to be false, and falling between the two stools. Sometimes it is appropriate to leave questions unanswered; at other times it just looks as if the author is trying to have her cake and eat it. All her characters choose one way or the other. She doesn't.
Unimpressed by nobody being able to work out mirror writing until actually seeing it in a mirror. I like to have my detectives be cleverer than me.
Also, lots of people thinking in italics, and that always annoys me. I've worked out why, now: it's because it enforces too sharp a demarcation between the character's thoughts and the author's. It's almost like a point of view shift mid-paragraph; it's something that would flow past me if the typeface remained the same, but marking it out like that makes a nasty, sudden jolt.
And once one has Susan Howatch's psychic clerics in one's head, they never leave. I had Frs Darrow and Hall tut-tutting all the way through about Messing Around with the paranormal, Being Too Sceptical, Being Too Gullible, and Breaking One's Vows And Then Celebrating Mass Without Having First Made Confession. But that's my problem rather than Tess Gerritsen's.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10020326
Unimpressed by nobody being able to work out mirror writing until actually seeing it in a mirror. I like to have my detectives be cleverer than me.
Also, lots of people thinking in italics, and that always annoys me. I've worked out why, now: it's because it enforces too sharp a demarcation between the character's thoughts and the author's. It's almost like a point of view shift mid-paragraph; it's something that would flow past me if the typeface remained the same, but marking it out like that makes a nasty, sudden jolt.
And once one has Susan Howatch's psychic clerics in one's head, they never leave. I had Frs Darrow and Hall tut-tutting all the way through about Messing Around with the paranormal, Being Too Sceptical, Being Too Gullible, and Breaking One's Vows And Then Celebrating Mass Without Having First Made Confession. But that's my problem rather than Tess Gerritsen's.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10020326
