Review: The Poison Artist

The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I had high hopes for this book, the blurb made it sound interesting, so when I finally decided to read it, I was expecting to be whisked away in to another world filled with crime and murder and a little romance. Instead, I found myself struggling to get through the first couple of chapters, it was almost as if the writer was repeating the same scenes over and over again, just a different day and a different bar.

I must day that I am disappointed in the novel quite a bit, I am sure that others greatly enjoyed it, but for me I never. I found that it had only started to really start becoming enjoyable for me was around chapter twenty two to chapter twenty three, with only twenty seven chapters within the book itself, it was a large disappointment.

The writing wasn't terrible, better than a lot of other books I have read, so it wasn't too hard to get in to it near the end. There was many times at the beginning that I just wanted to put the book down and not pick it up again, but because I'm stubborn and don't like not finishing things, I pushed through it.
Sadly, it's a novel that I won't be keeping on my bookshelves, so I will be passing it on to my local charity store in hopes that someone else will get some enjoyment out of it.

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