I wanted to read something fun today…
… but this wasn’t it. The writing style doesn’t annoy me overly (lots of parentheses (but not parentheses within parentheses)), but it’s like the book just can’t get started. We get so much backstory, and when you think it’s safe, you get even more backstory. And ruminations about writing, which apparently boils down to the deep insight of “write what you know”.
I got to page 60 and found that I had started skimming Yet Another Backstory, and that’s when you know it’s time to ditch the book.
Let’s Get Criminal (1996) by Lev Raphael (buy new, buy used, 3.79 on Goodreads)