Reviews for A Phat Death: A Nina Halligan Mystery

The average rating for A Phat Death: A Nina Halligan Mystery based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-29 00:00:00 Fil DiMaria If I could give this book negative stars, I would. It was terrible. But if you like awkward names for genitals, chinese throwing stars, misleading rants about hip hop culture, calling sex the "okey-doke," arousal torture, and novels that seem to be written in day, you will love a Phat Death. I was one of 4 people in my book club that could finish it. A Phat Death is better suited as a measure of how much torture one can take than as a mystery novel. I challenge you to find a book with worse dialogue. For example: "IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY!" shouted my father. "It was always about the money! You're are all criminals. This generation, this so-called hip-hop generation, made it possible for dead men with phat catalogues to have more influence that those who are living! Imagine that!" "Radeem, this empire of yours is built on a throne of blood!" I shouted. "This isn't going to last! You may be the next one!" ...."Well, as Himmler once said, 'It is the curse of greatness that one must step over dead bodies to create new life." The dialogue about sex is one thousand times worse. It was bad. Really bad. Don't buy it. I leave you with Dead Prez' immortal lines: Who shot Biggie Smalls? If we don't get'um they gonna get us all. I'm down for runnin up on them crackers in they city hall

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-22 00:00:00 Angela Wagers I guess it's a rule to most action adventure books: the grander the scale, the less endearing the tale. This is the sequel to "The List of 7," an eye-opening superfuntoread experience. The same characters, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack Sparks, Alexander... all return. If this were The Mummy franchise, 7=The Mummy; 6=The Mummy Returns. There is to be a congregation of six figureheads at a dark tower in the middle of Arizona. Doyle travels the ocean (has some obstacles... his brother accompanies him on his American Book Tour), from NYC to Chicago to Phoenix. Many characters are added on, most of them interesting and unconventional. Then the climax arrives 20 pages before the last page. So much effort, and the payoff seems... weak. There is a hint of betrayal here. The writer could have left his swashbucklers in the first book, but this extension brings them forth, completely out of their element. "List of 7", played upon the stage of Victorian England, with its foggy cobble-stoned streets & ill-lit lamps, was ambiance personified. Here Frost explores the new world, and the experience is less claustrophobic, emblematic, endearing... and that is the problem.