Interference, by Brad Parks

ISBN: 9781542020374
Amazon ID: B07Z3NFQPD

Gets off to a good start. Has good characters. There's a good pace. It's a good story. It's a good book.

I didn't think much of how easily someone's conscience gets the better of him at the end of the book; it was distinctly out of character and felt unrealistic.

Except

LEGO™ is a trademark and a collective noun. It does not have a plural. You can have some Lego, you can step on a Lego brick, or the room can be full of Lego bricks, but do not ever put an "s" on the end of "Lego".

The explanation about the cat comes in far too late in the story - it's a (small) distraction when it does turn up.

In chapter 49, there comes a jarring change of narrative - the previously-first person character suddenly (for no apparent reason) becomes third-person, and nobody "steps in" to take over. Most disconcerting.

Strangely, in chapter 50, the first-person characterisation returns. Odd.

Oh, hello, it's third-person again in chapter 51. I'm going to have to wonder about this.

Chapter 52, first-person. It keeps on shifting around from then on, and not in a nice or useful way; it's pretty distracting.

Oddities

I do not know what a "crash pad table" is.

Summary

I recommend reading this book, especially to Patricia Cornwell, in her case to find out how to write a book with quantum physics in it.


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