Rearview Mirror by Stephanie BlackMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Since I've been giving LDS lit a new look, I thought I would try out an LDS author's take on the mystery-thriller genre. I was pleasantly surprised.
It wasn't all that different from any other story in the genre, really. It follows a certain formula, and that was fine. I actually think I read these books for the formula. What made me happy about it was the clean language. The crimes weren't described graphically, either. Because I love mysteries and sort of hate the language/graphic depictions of violence, I was very happy with this.
There was some cheeser stuff, a little bit related to being Mormon, but really if I'm going to be honest, all such novels have elements of cheesiness, usually related to two things: the romantic interest and the dramatic confessions of really horrible behavior, given by the villain, at the end when the conflict is being resolved. But this is sort of to be expected. How else will we all know what happened?
And it really did have me guessing, so I give Ms. Black bonus points. I would be convinced that I knew who "done it" and then she would throw something new at me, and I could not be sure. It wasn't until the final few paragraphs that I finally knew who was up to no good, and even then she threw me off a little bit. Overall, not too shabby. I'll be trying more of her books in the future.
P.S. And may I say that I really liked the reader, and she was female. Usually female readers drive me nuts, but she didn't overdo the men. Generally, my beef with the women readers? They cannot do a convincing male voice. But this reader didn't try so hard to sound masculine, so it worked for me.
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