Genre: Book
Grade: D
Notable People: Steve Hamilton
Title: A Scandal of the Particular
Review: What can I say…. from the strange title and from the very first page, this may be the worst book I have read in my adult life. My local librarian e-mailed me to let me know it was in and give em e first dibs, knowing my fondness for Steve Hamilton books …unfortunately the Hamilton I read and admire (the Alex McKnight and Nick Mason series) …. only shares the same name. This guy is a former prosecutor and writes like one……. a bad one. Every line of every page is filled with run-on over descriptive metaphors of sorts, and a story line almost impossible to keep up with……after a few pages you start gagging. I had the misfortune of taking this along as my second book to read on our recent trip to Ohio, so wearily made my way through the whole damn thing just to have something to read at night. There should be a cigarette like warning posted on the side of the book. Just awful.