Books are a passion for me, which is interesting considering how long it can take me to read one. If only I could be like Maddy and blast through one in a weekend. Man, I'd be reading all the time!I will stick with a book though, I can't think of many that I've out-right quit reading.
The buzz in the crime fiction world these days is all about Megan Abbott. She writes neo-noir with these wonderful painted covers, just like in the hey-day of trash paperbacks. Abbott won the 2008 Edgar award for her book Queenpin. It won in the Best Paperback Original category. So I was pretty confident that I'd enjoy it.
I am sad to say that I never really got into it and I can't understand why. It had everything going for it; from the period to depiction of life in organized crime, there's even a gruesome murder in it but I found it never explored the *crime* that surrounded the main characters. Abbott kept the characters too distant from me, I never really got into their heads and so the book felt really flat to me and the plot kind of wondered around with out any convincing reasons for why certain events happened at all.
I was disapointed.
