Killer Weekend ~ Ridley Pearson

Funk Rating: 7 out of 10

Pearson's latest work isn't a bad read, but it lacks the punch and fervor of some of his earlier works. I will concede it has some good page-turning moments, and it's wonderfully light reading for the summer. But it falls short on all the angles that are important to me these days: the characters are stereotypes and fail to develop into real people you remember afterwards, the plotline feels formulaic, and there are so many strings and threads left untouched and underutilized that I wonder exactly why he wrote so many unfinished angles in.

Yes, I can hear you saying: "John, this is the first in a series, you dufus." OK, maybe so. But it still was sloppy in my mind. There are better books out there this summer. But, should you find this in your latest Amazon box, it's not a wreck. You'll fly through it, I'm sure...