Summer Reading Bingo {the second book in a series}
The Cinderella Murder | by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
My sister and I listened to The Cinderella Murder on our drive to Canada a few weeks ago. I’m not sure I can find a nice way to describe how I feel about it, but let me try.
The idea behind this book is good. It’s not extraordinary, it’s not fantastically unique, but it is good. It is an entertaining plot line, which is fine. But the execution left something to be desired. That said, we listened to the whole things, because we (or at least I, sorry Sara) wanted to know what happened!
Clark & Burke are endlessly wordy and overly dramatic in their descriptions. They introduce too many characters with too many different stories, some of which have nothing to do with the overall plot of the book, that I had trouble seriously caring about any of them. For example, there is an entire chapter about a reporter who hears and gunshot and is thrilled that she can report it to her boss and hopefully be given the story to write about....then she is never mentioned again, nor was she ever mentioned before that point.
I was seriously disappointed in this book, but I must say I was entertained... Mostly I was entertained by my sister as we paused the CD to laugh about something ridiculous or question was was going on or point our another cheesy song reference or mimic the strange way “God” was pronounced.
What pleased me most about this book is that when I went to see what category it could fit into on my bingo board, I found out it was the second book in a series called “Under Suspicion” and I was wondering what I would use for that category. So there’s that.