What would have made Sailor better?
Where do I start? Spoiler Alert
Characters - NONE of the characters was likable, except possibly the sailor. Even the mother was disgusting, flinging the "f" word around constantly in front of her little boy and she was always drinking. Great role model. We the reader had the creepy pleasure of sharing a masturbation experience with almost every male character at least once. This author seems obsessed with sex and his own man parts. I've read a lot of thrillers, dirty gritty ones, but this was just dumb. Sorry. Every character was SO over the top cliche, it seemed like they were taken straight out of a characterization class for beginners. And there were way too many of them. This guy/girl/kid had about twelve people chasing after them. After a while they all ran together and I stopped trying to tell the assassins apart, since they were all so similar anyway. Brutal bad asses who kick kittens, yeah, we get it.
Story - There were so many flaws, I don't know where to begin. Every cop was an idiot and only the bad guys had any brains until they meet the hero, of course. And the one scene where the reader is TORTURED into sharing the dreams of every character in the story. Really? Who cares? By the end of the book I was hoping the bad guys would kill the very unlikable female main character. And again I repeat, the author must be obsessed by sex, but do we really have to know that all these guys are jerking off? Yes we know it happens, did you really have to make us share? These were like cheap shock shots, only they weren't shocking, just vulgar. If I wan porn I'll read romance - at least I'd get a little titillation with it.
I'm going to stop now, only because I've wasted too much time on this book already.
Would you ever listen to anything by Tom Epperson again?
Never
What aspect of Donald Corren???s performance would you have changed?
He made the child very whiny, even in places where it didn't seem to fit the scene.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment. Terrible book. If I hadn't paid only five dollars for the audio-book, I would have been really upset.