Why would Kiki drug Dev? Why would she set him up for the murder of the only legit guy at the radio station? Why would she create fake murder threats against the station? Why would she then murder her brother who turns out to be her husband and set up Dev for that? Why would the author throw an entire chapter about a friend Dev gets out of rehab for a day and Kiki basically drugs the guy? Nothing else was said about it. Regardless, so much time was spent on creating this intrigue. Down the road, Kiki drugs Dev and sets him up for rape charges against her and murder charges on the third wheel at the station. But basically the third guy used the station as an outlet to rage against the man/government/. Their supposed death threats are faked by Kiki and her 'brother'. He does not immediately recognize that the station is probably not legit, except for one other guy there. Kiki's brother hires Dev to guard the radio station he works out. Thankfully none of the sex is descriptive. Relationship in quotes because they do not actually do anything but drink and have sex. He has a 'relationship' with the aforementioned crazy Kiki. So, my point is that Dev might be normal to most men and I think he is disgusting.

Dev, the protagonist, is a private investigator (PI). (Please imagine me rubbing my hands together in a gleeful fashion). More on that below in my section about the actual story. Things are pretty loose and carefree on that point. Because the one thing the book insists is that she is certifiable but that she might also be a criminal mastermind. I think she was supposed to be a stark raving genius? I'm not sure. My biggest problem was the character development for one of the main characters, Kiki, who is the antagonist. I made allowances for I-started-with-the-third-book situation. Yes I just used fluffery and I just totally made it up.Ĭharacter development: this part of the book was inconsistent. His style is witty, concise and not given to dramatic fluffery. All in all, I enjoyed the author's writing style, if not his writing. My main problem was it lost momentum and hit it's rate of diminishing returns rather quickly as we shall see below. Although this is the third book in the series, I felt that the author took his time and properly set the story up. Readability: the book was easy to read in the regard that ample description was given for the scenery and characters.

Since I have not read the first two books of the series, I'm cutting it some slack -but not much. I do not consider this a well-written crime book by any stretch of the imagination. I see that this was rated fairly high by other readers which puzzles me.

Bite Me by Mike Faricy