jayvall reviewed Inspector Singh investigates by Shamini Flint
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2 stars
Like others have mentioned, Flint misses no opportunity to remind the reader how fat her main character is. Not sure why she would make him fat, when she clearly has fat issues. He sweats through his clothes because he's so fat. He snores and keeps the whole house up because he's so fat. When he gets into a car, he has to put the seat back because he's so fat. Every chair he sits in creaks under his weight because he's so fat. Half the time he's not even introduced in a scene by name, just "the fat man." To say it was distracting is an understatement.
The other thing I found annoying about this was that the reader finds out clues before certain characters do so by the time we're reading the character finding out about a game-changer clue, it's no longer the mic drop the author might have …
Like others have mentioned, Flint misses no opportunity to remind the reader how fat her main character is. Not sure why she would make him fat, when she clearly has fat issues. He sweats through his clothes because he's so fat. He snores and keeps the whole house up because he's so fat. When he gets into a car, he has to put the seat back because he's so fat. Every chair he sits in creaks under his weight because he's so fat. Half the time he's not even introduced in a scene by name, just "the fat man." To say it was distracting is an understatement.
The other thing I found annoying about this was that the reader finds out clues before certain characters do so by the time we're reading the character finding out about a game-changer clue, it's no longer the mic drop the author might have intended because we had the clue revealed to us 5 pages ago.
Lastly, I'm not sure about the wisdom of building your whodunit around the murder of a person literally no one misses. I suppose his children miss him, but no one else was sad about this person's death and as a result, no one particularly cared about who killed him, it was more about who didn't do it. Weird way to structure your mystery.
