Friday, December 1, 2017

Saving Paradise - Mike Bond

A NetGalley e-book in exchange for an honest review.

Saving Paradise - Mike Bond
Published: 12/01/2014


I wanted to like this book. Set in Hawaii, a Special Forces veteran for a main character, and murder mystery genre. It had all the right ingredients but failed in execution for me.

Sam “Pono” Hawkins, the Special Forces veteran, is a character I have seen before and executed much better. He is supposed to be a great ladies man but there is no connection between the women he sleeps with other then, hey I think I will sleep with her, doesn’t matter I left another girl in my bed. Pono is supposed to be a bad ass veteran but that seemed like a side note in his character development to justify some of his physical skills.

The plot was *squirrel* interesting but at the same time *squirrel* so disjointed that it *squirrel* was hard to read. Yes, everything did seem to loop back in to join the rest of the story but *squirrel* I just couldn’t really immerse myself in the story.


The language used was even more horrific. I have visited Hawaii on several occasions and I promise that the native Hawaiians I met did not speak in grammatically butchered English to the extent that was in this story. It also was not consistent enough to be a specific character quirk, or if it was, it was done poorly and not consistently. 


2.5 stars is my rating because the mystery was good, the politics playing out was interesting, even if a bit forcefully overdone at times. It was decently fast paced, especially when you skim by the lists that pepper throughout the book. Let me just add... seriously, lists?!?! That is not a good way to cover word count.

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