Revenge of the Gypsy Queen

Rating:
Summary: Great Title, Good Potential, But Apparently No Editor
Review: I tried, I really tried to like this book. It was just so hard. It had humorous moments, and a couple of memorable characters, but most were fairly stereotypical, or simply not fleshed out enough to be of much interest. The plot hinged on an awful lot of improbablities, piling up coincidences and an awful lot of sheer dumb luck for the herione, Tracy. Tracy jumped from idea to idea without a whole lot of provocation, so the book could be hard to follow.

Basically, I was a little bit lost the whole time -- plot points were sometimes almost glossed over, there were just a few too many characters, and they seemed to often either miss the terribly obvious, or draw wild conclusions from the obscure. Add in a sort of deus ex machina ending, and I was a muddle. This book could have used one more revision under the editors pen -- made slightly tighter it would have been very good.

Rating:
Summary: Great Title, Good Potential, But Apparently No Editor
Review: I tried, I really tried to like this book. It was just so hard. It had humorous moments, and a couple of memorable characters, but most were fairly stereotypical, or simply not fleshed out enough to be of much interest. The plot hinged on an awful lot of improbablities, piling up coincidences and an awful lot of sheer dumb luck for the herione, Tracy. Tracy jumped from idea to idea without a whole lot of provocation, so the book could be hard to follow.

Basically, I was a little bit lost the whole time -- plot points were sometimes almost glossed over, there were just a few too many characters, and they seemed to often either miss the terribly obvious, or draw wild conclusions from the obscure. Add in a sort of deus ex machina ending, and I was a muddle. This book could have used one more revision under the editors pen -- made slightly tighter it would have been very good.