Brooding city ~ review

Format: Ebook (.mobi) | 185 pages

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Publication date: 01 Sep 2015

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A homicide detective must chase down a violent drug lord whose product is leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Detective Brennan is aided by having a special power—he innately knows when someone is lying to him or telling the truth. There are others like him, though, and his dreams are haunted by deadly agents from his own shady past. Meanwhile, in the valley outside the city, a young boy comes into his own power of downloading other people’s memories on touch, and he uncovers old secrets that threaten to tear his whole family apart. His power also makes him a prime target for the aforementioned shadowy dream-stalking agents, since his brain lights up like a beacon at night with so many memories crammed inside.

★★☆☆☆
As I starter reading I had high expectations, because I am a lover of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and this clouded my judgement a bit, From the start to finish I was confused of what was happening. It was like two stories crammed together in one book, the constant jumping from one character to another was not helping at all. Yes, it is a short book, not more than 200 pages but it took me "ages" to read it till end. Also there were long sentences from start and it tired my mind. I'm not a native speaker of English, so I had to read some of them twice to grasp their meaning.
As for characters, i needed a while to get accustomed to the names. Brennan and Bishop were almost the same (both starting on B :P, my mind filling in the wrong names) and I  had trouble to actually know who is male and who female. Were I the author I would stick to the first names. I didn't quite see the character development in any of the characters, maybe only the slight difference in Jerremy actually accepting Sleepers were real.

Which brings me to another point. Who are the Sleepers? How did they come to be? What is their purpose? I lacked the background story. All you got in the book isn't enough, it leaves you guessing.

Recommendations? I don't know anyone who would want to read a detective story, but I guess ones liking other crimis would like it. The good thing at least was the fluidity and reality of the problem, the finding of the drug dealer.