Dana Haynes
Auteur van Crashers
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(eng) Dana Haynes has written three mysteries under the pen name Conrad Haynes.
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- Officiële naam
- Haynes, Dana
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Haynes, Conrad (pseudonym)
- Geslacht
- male
- Woonplaatsen
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Agent
- Janet Reid (Fine Print Literary Management)
- Ontwarringsbericht
- Dana Haynes has written three mysteries under the pen name Conrad Haynes.
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 10
- Leden
- 375
- Populariteit
- #64,333
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 47
- ISBNs
- 51
- Talen
- 1
And that's where the praise ends. This reads like a script for a summer movie or a CSI "Special Episode." It is filled with an appropriately diverse cast (for some, unknown, reason the ethnic background of even the most trivial of characters is given. While the supporting cast contains a Korean man, three African Americans, a Brit, an Israeli, a handful of Irish men, an Arab American and an Asian American, the main cast is white -- very TV.) More time is spent describing how beautiful, handsome, rugged and sexy each character is than really giving any personality, which makes it difficult to tell who's talking without dialogue tags.
The action is really designed to be cinematic. I had a lot of fun picturing in my head how the scenes would look, but there aren't really any twists to engage the imagination of the reader.
But, where the Crashers really falls down is the writing. As I said, the plot is fun, the characters are pretty, there's lots of action, overall it would be about as enjoyable as a weak Dan Brown novel, if not for the terrible writing. To be fair, I received an advance copy, which I assume (from the number of typos) is still undergoing some editing. That being said, the dangling participles, heavy handed dialogue-tagging and awkward exposition and narration were so distracting that finishing the book was a chore that I completed because I got the book from First Reads. Had I bought the book, I probably would have given up on it.… (meer)