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for The Fields
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Nancy K. (Perrysburg, OH)
Lots of gore
I wanted to like this book but there was too much gore. Think Silence of the Lambs and you all know what I mean.
The setting is Iowa, murder takes place in a corn field and it goes on from there. If you like to read a mystery that includes a brutal, savage killer this is the book for you. The author is talented but this left me very uneasy. If that was what the author wanted she succeeded!
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Christine B. (Lilydale, MN)
Too Many Plots
This crime/mystery debut is not one novel it is many. There are so many plots within subplots it became very confusing. Out protagonist is young Riley Fisher newly promoted head of investigations for the Sheriff's office in Iowa. Her first case is the heinous murder of her good friend left to die in a Iowa cornfield. This leads to several other cases involving her niece, her brother, the two governors running for office, the candidate's sister, drug dealing, farm co-ops versus big Ag and Riley's nemesis Hunter who supposedly raped her when she was young. This sub plot was never fully developed and I assume it might be in the next book of the series Erin Young is planning. The author tried very hard to connect all the people in the book within all the sub plots and to tie everything together at the end, but I think it was an impossible task.
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Dianne A. (Littleton, CO)
The Fields
Although I thought it was pretty good, I wouldn't recommend it to others. I did like the Riley/Logan team. I might read another book with that team as the main characters.
I also found it a bit hard to keep up with all the suspected killers. And there were just too many bad guys in black SUVs.
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Catherine S. (Marietta, GA)
Not so thrilling thriller
This book was okay. I read a lot of mysteries and suspense and was hoping for something original and fresh. The Fields was neither of these. You knew who the "bad guy" was almost in the first chapter. Riley's backstory is so commonplace now in books about female police officers and detectives. Also, many of the relationships in the book seemed to fit the same old stereotypes-the resentful male police officers, the bad brother. I did like the characters of Riley and Logan. I enjoyed reading and learning about some of the issues in agriculture today. I will be honest, I was disappointed in this book. I had hoped for so much more.
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Josephine L. (Sarasota, FL)
The Fields
I did not like the book and have not finished it, falling asleep when I start to read it is not a good sign.
