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Right Time Wrong Place
Join Susie Andrews in this witty and fast-paced novel. An ordinary, yet confident middle-aged woman with a nice line in self-depreciating, street-smart humour, she grows increasingly audacious after becoming accidentally entangled in the kidnap of a teenage boy from a wealthy family.
The mystery deepens as the kidnap victim disappears but no one reports the boy missing.
The mother of two boys herself, she is driven to help as her mind goes into overdrive imagining it were one of her own sons. Her determined yet cavalier behaviour leads her into less-than ordinary, even dangerous situations as she attempts to find the teenager with the reluctant help of a private investigator and her own computer genius son.
The mystery deepens as the kidnap victim disappears but no one reports the boy missing.
The mother of two boys herself, she is driven to help as her mind goes into overdrive imagining it were one of her own sons. Her determined yet cavalier behaviour leads her into less-than ordinary, even dangerous situations as she attempts to find the teenager with the reluctant help of a private investigator and her own computer genius son.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2023
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April 4, 2023
When Susie Andrews shows up for her scheduled appointment at a private investigator’s office, she finds herself held at gunpoint. Pulled into the kidnapping of a young man, she has to rely on her wits to make sure he gets home safely.
I’ll say this up front, this book will not make my favourites of the year list. Right from the beginning I was wondering if the writing was trying to be funny, or dramatic. I would have been fine with the switch between first person and third person narration, if it had followed a predicable pattern. But switches between styles of narration seemed somewhat random at times, even jumping between characters, sometimes for only one paragraph. It left me disorientated at times.
All that could have been remedies by a good story, but sadly it wasn’t. The plot wore a little thin several times, and got less and less believable as the story went on. There was little suspense, as everything that wasn’t obvious from the start got revealed rather quickly. Several summaries by characters telling others what had happened before slowed everything down. There was a somewhat surprising twist at the end, but I’d file that under not really credible rather an anything else.
I’ll say this up front, this book will not make my favourites of the year list. Right from the beginning I was wondering if the writing was trying to be funny, or dramatic. I would have been fine with the switch between first person and third person narration, if it had followed a predicable pattern. But switches between styles of narration seemed somewhat random at times, even jumping between characters, sometimes for only one paragraph. It left me disorientated at times.
All that could have been remedies by a good story, but sadly it wasn’t. The plot wore a little thin several times, and got less and less believable as the story went on. There was little suspense, as everything that wasn’t obvious from the start got revealed rather quickly. Several summaries by characters telling others what had happened before slowed everything down. There was a somewhat surprising twist at the end, but I’d file that under not really credible rather an anything else.
April 11, 2023
I requested this as an Early Reviewer title, based on the blurb. Unfortunately I couldn’t get interested in this story for a couple of reasons. To begin with I felt like I had been dropped into the middle of the story with an unidentified character in the “boot” of a car for some reason and I kept trying to figure out who and why. Then a young man appeared to have been kidnapped from his parents who were a mismatched, unhappily married wealthy couple that I didn’t particularly care for. The Overdrive version I read had unfortunate spacing gaps throughout which interfered with the continuity.
I was also very much put off by the demeaning physical descriptions of most female characters. “One was like a fat farmer’s wife…her bottom almost skimming the pavement....” On the other hand the woman to whom Giorgio was attracted had “a lush body with more curves than a Monaco coast road.
I kept reading only because I felt obliged to write a review, and I did eventually become interested in Susie’s adventures and dangerous actions, but too late
I was also very much put off by the demeaning physical descriptions of most female characters. “One was like a fat farmer’s wife…her bottom almost skimming the pavement....” On the other hand the woman to whom Giorgio was attracted had “a lush body with more curves than a Monaco coast road.
I kept reading only because I felt obliged to write a review, and I did eventually become interested in Susie’s adventures and dangerous actions, but too late
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