Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Danger in Numbers. Thank you to the publisher, Mira Books, for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
The Gist
I have been on a little book review hiatus. And the first review I get to write has me staring at my trusted little laptop screen. I don’t know what to say. Well, I do know what to say, I just don’t know how to say it without sounding like a complete jerk.
What the heck?! Here it goes: I thought this was really not that good. Wow! Can I be any more passive aggressive?
But seriously, though. What do you say about a story that felt like listening to nails on a chalkboard?
Let me explain.
The Details
I don’t think Danger in Numbers would have been as bad, had it not been for the writing.
But what is a story without the writing? Good question. Not much, I presume.
As soon as I started reading Danger in Numbers I could tell that this felt more like a mass-produced book. You know, one of those paperback novels you buy at the airport just to pass the time of your delayed flight?
Danger in Numbers was a quick read, but mostly because it was just fluff. Badly written fluff.
There was no passion or excitement in the writing. I can always tell when a person writes something because they have to, versus when they are excited about telling a story.
This story just felt void of enthusiasm for the craft of writing.
The grammar was atrocious. The sentences felt chopped and thrown together to just get the point across, regardless of what they sound like as long as the pages get filled with them.
I couldn’t stand the characters in Danger in Numbers. I imagined a pursed lip, better-than-thou female detective and a male sidekick, who have such a strong bond they only have to look at each to communicate. That sounds like something out of a day-time television show.
Also, I cannot buy the fact that a 50-year-old man has snow-white hair. Sure, it happens that people grey prematurely, but snow-white hair? On a 50-year-old man? Nah.
The lackluster writing, the lack of passion, the oh-so-many run-on sentences and unbelievable character descriptions made Danger in Numbers a not very pleasurable reading experience.
The Verdict
Overall, not even a gruesome murder in the deserted landscape of the Everglades could save this one for me. I am quite aware that this might not be a very popular opinion, yet I’m incapable of sugar coating the facts these days.
It’s a hard pass for me on Danger in Numbers.
About the Author
Heather Graham is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author has written over two hundred novels and novellas, has been published in approximately twenty-five languages and with about 60 million books sold in print in the categories of romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare.
