Plot: When a hospital laundry worker is wrongly accused of murdering a surgical resident, Lenny Moss, custodian, takes it upon himself to find the real killer. Along with other maintenance workers, Lenny manages to gather clues without attracting attention - the only advantage to being an "invisible" employee. But Lenny's invisibility begins to wear off as he gets closer to the truth...
Comments: The story in this book is great! It's very creative and almost satirical, poking fun at arrogant doctors while real people do the dirty work. The network of maintenance workers are fun and have very different personalities, but they all share a common instinct to stick together and fight for the underdog. The intrigue and mystery work well and keep the reader interested.
Unfortunately, that said, I have to admit that the writing is absolutely horrible. Terrible. Atrocious. Horrifyingly amateur, and from an author who has apparently published over 100 articles, plays, and short stories. I caught grammar and punctuation mistakes left and right; using the wrong "your", too many apostrophes, confusion with paragraphs, and so on. In addition to the obvious mistakes, the author would switch to a new paragraph when really he should have started a new chapter, or at least skipped several lines. Starting a new paragraph, I would only eventually realize that the entire scene had changed, including time, setting, and characters. This book was very confusing. Oftentimes I couldn't tell who was speaking when. All in all, the idea for the story was great. But the writing was plain bad.
Rating: I rate this book a five out of ten.
Comments: The story in this book is great! It's very creative and almost satirical, poking fun at arrogant doctors while real people do the dirty work. The network of maintenance workers are fun and have very different personalities, but they all share a common instinct to stick together and fight for the underdog. The intrigue and mystery work well and keep the reader interested.
Unfortunately, that said, I have to admit that the writing is absolutely horrible. Terrible. Atrocious. Horrifyingly amateur, and from an author who has apparently published over 100 articles, plays, and short stories. I caught grammar and punctuation mistakes left and right; using the wrong "your", too many apostrophes, confusion with paragraphs, and so on. In addition to the obvious mistakes, the author would switch to a new paragraph when really he should have started a new chapter, or at least skipped several lines. Starting a new paragraph, I would only eventually realize that the entire scene had changed, including time, setting, and characters. This book was very confusing. Oftentimes I couldn't tell who was speaking when. All in all, the idea for the story was great. But the writing was plain bad.
Rating: I rate this book a five out of ten.
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