Search - Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, Bk 1)

Oh my goodness!

What a wild ride this one was! I loved it.

I am not a fan of modern best-seller-style thrillers, and this one has tendencies that way (serial killer of nearly superhuman cleverness, ever-tightening suspense), but it overcomes them. The characters are so interesting!

About a hundred pages into the book, I began to wonder if the authors (a mother-and-daughter team writing pseudonymously) were going to be able to keep track of the plethora of characters they were creating and whether I would be able to process all of them into a meaningful reading experience.

They could and I could. Amazing, yes, but it worked.

This will be a new experience for you--I've certainly never read anything quite like it. The blurbs include the word "funny." I can't quite see that--there were no laughs for me. Plenty of oddball characters and new experiences, but nothing really funny. That's OK, it's a wonderful story--I just didn't want anyone to go in looking for light, funny stuff, because you would be disappointed. Instead, go in looking for unusual people, a fascinating situation, and plenty of good old-fashioned suspense.

Read this book.

Really good book. Lots of action, leaves you wondering who did it until the end.

TERRIFIC TALE
What a debut for this mother/daughter team! Many established authors never achieve the scintillating dialogue and captivating characters of these novices. Suffice it to say I finished the book in less than 48 hours. Hollywood, are you paying attention? I can't wait to revisit Leo and Gino in Live Bait.

This one deserves all the good things I heard about it – I raced through it absolutely riveted. A serial killer has decided to re-create the murders shown in a video game invented by a little company called Monkeewrench. You’ve got quirky characters, cops, and an unknown killer; the Monkeewrench team has an interesting secret; and the technology doesn’t feel too dated (hard to do these days, with tech evolution moving so fast). So maybe it has a lot of the clichés of the genre, but I didn’t care – I liked it. Excellent reading.

I requested this because of all the rave reviews, but found it to be a pretty average mystery. It was entertaining enough for the waiting room, but not the best book I've ever read.

One of my friends recommended this book to me and I in turned have hooked another reader friend. It took about 25 pages for me to decide it was not going to be all blood and guts when it settled down into a very good "who dunnit". This book was a great beginning to the mother/daughter authors I am now hooked on this series and hope they keep on coming!