The Bottom Line Book Review
This website provides book reviews that get to the 'Bottom Line' of it. After all,
you want to know if it's worth reading Before you buy it.
you want to know if it's worth reading Before you buy it.
Author:
Publisher:
The Bottom Line:
Iris Johansen
Bantam Books
The storyline is "interesting" if you find a drug king pin who entices a forensic sculptor to
come alone to his jungle to reconstruct a skull that he does not yet have, so that he can
present it to a second party, to prove that the skull was the daughter of the second party,
who was murdered by a third party, who is also a drug lord, who has been helping the
second party with humanitarian cause and has thus gained the second party's confidence,
so that the first party can convince that the skull is really who he says it is and then he can
get DNA to really prove it, so when all this happens, the first party can recruit the second
party to destroy the third party. Meanwhile the first party, as a reward for his almost
indentured service, will then provide the forensic sculptor with the identity of the kidnapper
and presumed murdered of the forensic sculptor's young daughter. All of this happens in
the bowels of the Columbia Jungle with all the murder, betrayal, and cruelty that business
brings with it.
The writing is clear and easy enough to follow, but for me this story line just wasn't
believable enough to keep me from putting the book down; the hard part was picking it up
to continue when I have so many other I wanted to read.
The 'Bottom Line' ratings
Ease of reading: B
The Story: D
The ‘It Grabbed Me factor’: C
Overall C-rating: C
The Bottom Line: “In terms of in the believability the Plot line is a bit out there."
come alone to his jungle to reconstruct a skull that he does not yet have, so that he can
present it to a second party, to prove that the skull was the daughter of the second party,
who was murdered by a third party, who is also a drug lord, who has been helping the
second party with humanitarian cause and has thus gained the second party's confidence,
so that the first party can convince that the skull is really who he says it is and then he can
get DNA to really prove it, so when all this happens, the first party can recruit the second
party to destroy the third party. Meanwhile the first party, as a reward for his almost
indentured service, will then provide the forensic sculptor with the identity of the kidnapper
and presumed murdered of the forensic sculptor's young daughter. All of this happens in
the bowels of the Columbia Jungle with all the murder, betrayal, and cruelty that business
brings with it.
The writing is clear and easy enough to follow, but for me this story line just wasn't
believable enough to keep me from putting the book down; the hard part was picking it up
to continue when I have so many other I wanted to read.
The 'Bottom Line' ratings
Ease of reading: B
The Story: D
The ‘It Grabbed Me factor’: C
Overall C-rating: C
The Bottom Line: “In terms of in the believability the Plot line is a bit out there."
“In terms of in the believability the Plot line is a bit too far
out there."
out there."
Stalemate
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