Top critical review
One person found this helpful
Mostly very good, but occasionally not.
on 1 December 2013
There is no doubt that this author is good at his craft. His narrative is good and well paced and his dialogues natural. But then the flow is interrupted by comments about his characters' ages that just don't make sense. For instance, one leading character is constantly referred to as 'the old man' as if he's a geriatric; he's 54! I thought that was something to do with the author's age because, as we all know, when we're young anyone more than ten years older must be ancient, but then he refers to a 20 year old professional woman as a 'young girl'. Weird, but then I find that the Dean Crawford is in his mid thirties, so he's right in the middle. That and the fact that he doesn't know what decimate means results in three stars instead of four, which it would otherwise merit.