Want to know how to build a clock? Ask Grady Hendrix what time it is! I love these stories but good grief! Get ON with it! At some point I probably wanted to kill each of these characters myself. How often can you repeatedly say the same thing? Pretty often! The only redeeming quality about all the repetition? It helped me keep track of the many, many characters by the way they talked. Way too many characters here.

Even with all that, I love the way this guy writes. In the midst of murder and mayhem, I’m laughing all the way to work.

It took a long time for the plot to reveal itself and make sense. Most of the book is spent trying to figure out if we’ve got an unreliable narrator here. I’m still not sure about that. This nagging question overshadows everything else.

I did like the book and already have a few more on my TBR list. I’ll just have to accept that they’re all a lot longer than they need to be.

4/5