alexbuch reviewed Heatwave by Victor Jestin
Review of 'Heatwave' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
2.5 stars rounded up
Hardcover, 112 pages
Published June 29, 2021 by Scribner.
Victor Jestin: Heatwave (Hardcover, 2021, Scribner)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9821-4348-0
- OCLC Number:
- 1257552478
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2 stars
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Dee reviewed Heatwave by Victor Jestin
Review of 'Heatwave' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
A quick but rather dull read. Really nothing more than a teenager witnessing a suicide which he then foolishly decides to cover up by burying the body. He ends up being infatuated with a girl he barely knows and practically forgets about the suicide. The ending bore no real shock, he just confesses as the killer ?
I would also like to add that the Leonard, the main character, is portrayed as incredibly incompetent. It's not expected of a teenager to be Holmes but any 17 year old would know better than to decide to take a dead person's phone and carry it around. I will not even bother with the idea of a presumably skinny and scrawny 17 year old managing to drag a whole body around and bury it unnoticed. The writing in this book just feels very inauthentic and flat.
1/5
Much more could have been done …
A quick but rather dull read. Really nothing more than a teenager witnessing a suicide which he then foolishly decides to cover up by burying the body. He ends up being infatuated with a girl he barely knows and practically forgets about the suicide. The ending bore no real shock, he just confesses as the killer ?
I would also like to add that the Leonard, the main character, is portrayed as incredibly incompetent. It's not expected of a teenager to be Holmes but any 17 year old would know better than to decide to take a dead person's phone and carry it around. I will not even bother with the idea of a presumably skinny and scrawny 17 year old managing to drag a whole body around and bury it unnoticed. The writing in this book just feels very inauthentic and flat.
1/5
Much more could have been done with idea had it not been restricted and diluted into a 100 page piece with no real weight to its words.