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Paradise Flossed, November 25, 2006
 

This book may have a fantastic plot and outcome, and Joel Rosenberg may be "The Modern Nostradamus," but I will never know because I couldn't get through it.

The writing, as craft, is just awful; the character development is bitterly amateurish; the characters are the most annoying and cloying I have ever seen; the "action" sequences are bumbling, unrealistic, maybe not even researched for authenticity, and, in a word, corney:

 

"Then Erin was there, Beretta in hand. She opened fire...'Let me go,' she screamed. 'Let me die with him!'...Bennet shielded Natasha with his own body."

 

Ack, ack!

One imagines John Candy retyping the scene in Delirious, "No, no...make it a Vulcan Cannon--it's in her purse! Yes!"

I went from reading with sinfully cozy anticipation, to skimming, and then to finally tossing it at page 163.

 

"Bennet was stunned. He had no idea how the man could have recovered so quickly, but it hardly mattered. The two of them were now hurtling down the stairs, and soon they hit the floor with a bone-crunching thud."

 

Rosenberg's talent for prognostication far exceeds powers of craft.

Serially, he should find a "collaborative" writer, or another venue. I hope he made his sell-through.

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