Scott’s Tulsa

Part Jack Reacher, part Jame’s Bond ladies man. Cool. Did I mention he played baseball? Did I mention he was in Alaska?

I love the concept and where the setting came from. Amazing passion project.

Avuncular. At least 3 times throughout the book? That word has been going through my head since then.

Looking forward to more of the story from Japan and Alaska. The bits that were included as full scenes were cool. Too many callbacks in everyday life for his baseball time. Did I mention he played baseball?

I thought the first mystery solved of the true grandmother was a bit too much Encyclopedia Brown; just happened to pop that one once there was no more story there to draw out.

The chapters and some scenes were much too self contained, like scenes from a play. Enter stage left, talk, wrap up cleanly and exit stage right. This visual actually came to me multiple times throughout the book. The chapters were also of very similar length, right until the end. That also made it feel repetitive, leading me to almost give up on the book towards the middle. I know there is the same advice against writing sentences of all the same length. Somewhat applicable, but not exactly the same for chapters I am sure.

I am torn between the brutality at the end being off-putting because of the sudden change (some cursing and violence before, but not to that extreme) or if it was a good writing device because Scott and Evie were up against true evil at that point. Not sure, something I am still working out. It did obviously stand out.

The pickup and pacing at the end made me feel much better overall about the book, to the point of considering the next several books to come. Did I mention he played baseball?

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