A little more catching up here... Two books to avoid if you can.
I never even got past the first 50 pages of The Accidental it was so bad. I have no idea how it could possibly have been nominated, much less a finalist, for a few awards. It stunk.
I read an Iris Johansen (Stalemate) last year and thought it was decent. But I picked up Countdown at an airport recently, and it wins the lousiest book I finished in 2008, hands down. Characters were incredibly weak, the dialog was downright awful, and the plotline was so contrived and tricked up that the only reason I finished it was to see if it could possibly redeem itself. And the ending dug the hole of bad writing just that much deeper.
So, there are two to NOT put on your reading list!
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