Friday, July 1, 2011

Mortal Fear eBook Review

This was my first book that I had downloaded from the San Bernardino County Library, which is inferior to the LA County Library because 1) you can only check out a book for a maximum of 14 days 2) you only have three days to check out the book once it become available. Whatever.

In any case according to the copyright page, the original electronic version was published in 2000. I don't know what happened in the conversion, but my version of the book had no apostrophes, no quotation marks and lots of words were stucktogether making it sometimes difficulttoread. A whole book without apostrophes? It was like reading La Disparition by Georges Perec, in which he wrote a whole book without using the letter "e." This book was ok. The main character Harper Cole, who is the system operator of a high-class sex program/forum online who discovers that several women subscribers have been murdered. Harper's got his own big problems because he's the father of his sister-in-law's daughter. The FBI thinks he's the killer. The killer is sick and twisted to the point where I thought, wow, maybe I don't really want to keep reading this. Then I thought, wow, I don't want to hear anymore about Harper's stupid problems with his sister-in-law. Then the two collided and the last 150 pages flew by.

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