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Feb 14, 2017chriscoleman rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Joe Lansdale's books are hit or miss. This one isn't as bad as the worst (I hate the Hap and Leonard books) or as good as the best, but it's somewhere in between. The narration for the audio CD is pretty awful. I listen to audio CDs in the car on long trips. We couldn't stand this one for more than an hour. The narrator's voice keeps dropping off at the end of every single sentence so you miss half of what is said. I realize there has to be some intonation to make the story come alive but lowering your voice to a whisper at the end of every single sentence is not the way to go. He also had some difficulty doing the female voices and one of the protagonists is Lula, the sister who is kidnapped. So the audio CD narrator is bad. Now about the novel itself. One of the other novels I read of Joe's featured a pedophile who rapes the little girl. I don't like reading that and when I put hours into a novel and then suddenly the girl is raped, I get pretty angry because that ruins the entire book. Flipping through the book it appears that's the way this one goes too, so I won't be finishing it. If the only way a writer can get readers to read their books is to put in pedophilia, incest, and rape (which Joe puts in almost every book now), then I stop reading that author, so goodbye Joe.