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good story bad writing, 9 Mar 2009

unfortunately I keep saying that, but Ms Hoffman does have a problem with eyes. I do wonder if any authors ever read the reviews we post, if they do, I hope she takes notice that eyes never actually leave a person's head. Therefore they cannot fall onto papers, jackets, files, get caught on a building, dart around a room ... and you cannot, no matter how hard you try, rub your eyes with a yawn. They are in two different parts of your face. There is a lot of this nonsensical writing (which I notice, as a writer and editor) and the 'sliced to ribbons', which another reviewer mentioned, is repetitive and unnecessary. There are gaping holes in this story, too many coincidences, too much for us… Read more

disappointing, 1 Mar 2009

After having and playing and loving Grace, I thought this would be a good addition. It is not. There is little power in Buckley's voice and he seems mostly to be going through the motions for the audience. I am passing this one on to the charity shop or second hand record shop in record time (excuse the pun). Not for me.

seeing both sides, 1 Mar 2009

I have read the reviews here and sympathise with both sets of viewpoints. Retribution was an outstanding first novel, written with pace and style. Last Witness is not an outstanding novel but, by skipping all the legalese and acronyms, easy to do, I got into the story and really needed to know Who Did It by the end. I was disappointed to find that we have to wait some time for the third book, to see whether Bantling gets his comeuppance in the end. Tension and a good storyline somewhat drowned by the need to reiterate key factors from book one, main fault, some lazy writing 'his eyes fell on the paperwork' which detracted and shows a lack of revision and editorial skill (my editor hasn't… Read more