[Books 2007] More PJ Tracy

[inulro]

38. Dead Run by PJ Tracy

Another PJ Tracy thriller which I knocked off in less than two days. This is not great literature, but it's been damn good self-indulgent comfort reading (and handy if you spend lots of time on public transit).

This is the third in the series - and, like the second and fourth installments, nowhere near as good as the first volume, Want to Play?.

The format is somewhat different in that the female characters (Grace, Annie and Sharon) get stranded in the northern Wisconsin woods where something has gone Seriously Wrong. While they're trying to get out, the rest of the crew are trying to find them. It's really suspenseful stuff, but the emphasis is on survival skills rather than solving a mystery which for me is a bit unsatisfying. There's also some really annoying "men do x and women do y" generalisations (though overall the women are just as if not more tough and capable than the men in these books) I could have lived without.

An entertaining waste of a few hours.

Comments

[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

Survival skills in the Northern Wisconsin woods? Like, learning the right response to "How about those Packers, hey?" or finding a way to get out before their arteries terminally harden from the consumption of cheese, beer, and bratwurst in a bun? ;)

(Did I mention that I live in Northern Wisconsin?)