Comments on: Review: Twisted by Andrea Kane http://goodbadandunread.com/2008/04/30/review-twisted-by-andrea-kane/ Reading, Ranting and Reviewing by Readers Sat, 26 May 2012 06:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Wendy http://goodbadandunread.com/2008/04/30/review-twisted-by-andrea-kane/comment-page-1/#comment-44824 Wendy Thu, 01 May 2008 02:02:51 +0000 http://goodbadandunread.com/2008/04/30/review-twisted-by-andrea-kane/#comment-44824 Yeah, it really sucked Cheryl because the minute I read that piece of dialogue I thought, "Well now what do I do for the next 300 pages?" Knowing the identity of the bad guy can work in suspense novels, but they have to follow the "cat and mouse" formula. The reader knows whodunit, and the objective of the story is to read about the protagonist(s) figuring it out, piecing it together. Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell, and several others who escape me at the moment, have done cat and mouse plots with great success. Serial killers whose identities are no longer a secret, but are still at large. Baddies who break out of prison. That sort of thing. However, Twisted was written in the style of a tradition whodunit, so figuring it out <i>well</i> before page 50? Not good. Yeah, it really sucked Cheryl because the minute I read that piece of dialogue I thought, “Well now what do I do for the next 300 pages?”

Knowing the identity of the bad guy can work in suspense novels, but they have to follow the “cat and mouse” formula. The reader knows whodunit, and the objective of the story is to read about the protagonist(s) figuring it out, piecing it together. Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell, and several others who escape me at the moment, have done cat and mouse plots with great success. Serial killers whose identities are no longer a secret, but are still at large. Baddies who break out of prison. That sort of thing. However, Twisted was written in the style of a tradition whodunit, so figuring it out well before page 50? Not good.

]]> By: Cheryl St.John http://goodbadandunread.com/2008/04/30/review-twisted-by-andrea-kane/comment-page-1/#comment-44818 Cheryl St.John Thu, 01 May 2008 00:23:12 +0000 http://goodbadandunread.com/2008/04/30/review-twisted-by-andrea-kane/#comment-44818 Nothing worse than knowing whodunnit and then not caring. Bummer. Nothing worse than knowing whodunnit and then not caring. Bummer.

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