Time Bomb
Time Bomb
I usually say Milo is wasted as a character in several ways over the series. Sometimes, it doesn't matter because his side of the plot is all around whodunnit, but now and then we get a book where something interesting is happening to him and Kellerman barely touches the issue. Along with Over the Edge, Time Bomb makes a fine example.
It's a hard book to read, with several plots coming together and a lot of history thrown in, I do "enjoy" (in lack of better word) Holocaust stories, I believe they're supposed to be heard, so that was a nice addition to the plot, in my opinion. Didn't exactly make it "smart" or added any "depth" to it (as I believe it did to Survival of the Fittest), but made it more interesting to my eyes.
Overall, I thought it was a clever whodunnit, even though the nazi politician bit made little sense to me and felt quite contrived; I'd have stopped with the main bad guy pulling the strings and his little army of zombie kids. Also, I'm not sure I buy someone so smart would trust a nearly retarded girl to do his dirty job, but I can't say I disliked this bit as well.
On the Alex relationship plot... Like the girl, don't care much for the affair. What's new?
When we come to an end, I enjoyed part of it. While Alex playing Sherlock and exposing the whole plot for the reader in twenty pages or less it felt like too much information and sometimes I got myself thinking "What the hell, Alex? Are in it too??", not sure where most of his deductions came from, but fine, resolution through monologue is canon and I can take it.
I can't help but say my favorite part of the book was to see the heroes being saved not by Milo - who was in danger as well, as I'll explain in a moment - but by a truly hateful man who does it for revenge and personal gain. And the heroes have to suck it up. Quite satisfying, I must say.
What I did hate about this book comes down to this: we finally get Milo in distress, as in SERIOUS distress, and it goes so perfectly well and in character for a few pages. Then, it is completely ignored. No going to the hospital, no calling Rick to see if he was okay or say he is okay, not comments on how he was doing (though we do get to see a bit of the aftermatch on Private Eyes). Kellerman sacrifices what for Alex (or his Girlfriend-of-the-Book!!) would probably have been at least a few paragraphs in order to actually bring a character back to life in order to add another chapter of irrelevant information to put questions I wasn't really asking to rest.
I do love Kellerman's books and plots. But it angers me so much to see Milo discarded like that every other time.
I usually say Milo is wasted as a character in several ways over the series. Sometimes, it doesn't matter because his side of the plot is all around whodunnit, but now and then we get a book where something interesting is happening to him and Kellerman barely touches the issue. Along with Over the Edge, Time Bomb makes a fine example.
It's a hard book to read, with several plots coming together and a lot of history thrown in, I do "enjoy" (in lack of better word) Holocaust stories, I believe they're supposed to be heard, so that was a nice addition to the plot, in my opinion. Didn't exactly make it "smart" or added any "depth" to it (as I believe it did to Survival of the Fittest), but made it more interesting to my eyes.
Overall, I thought it was a clever whodunnit, even though the nazi politician bit made little sense to me and felt quite contrived; I'd have stopped with the main bad guy pulling the strings and his little army of zombie kids. Also, I'm not sure I buy someone so smart would trust a nearly retarded girl to do his dirty job, but I can't say I disliked this bit as well.
On the Alex relationship plot... Like the girl, don't care much for the affair. What's new?
When we come to an end, I enjoyed part of it. While Alex playing Sherlock and exposing the whole plot for the reader in twenty pages or less it felt like too much information and sometimes I got myself thinking "What the hell, Alex? Are in it too??", not sure where most of his deductions came from, but fine, resolution through monologue is canon and I can take it.
I can't help but say my favorite part of the book was to see the heroes being saved not by Milo - who was in danger as well, as I'll explain in a moment - but by a truly hateful man who does it for revenge and personal gain. And the heroes have to suck it up. Quite satisfying, I must say.
What I did hate about this book comes down to this: we finally get Milo in distress, as in SERIOUS distress, and it goes so perfectly well and in character for a few pages. Then, it is completely ignored. No going to the hospital, no calling Rick to see if he was okay or say he is okay, not comments on how he was doing (though we do get to see a bit of the aftermatch on Private Eyes). Kellerman sacrifices what for Alex (or his Girlfriend-of-the-Book!!) would probably have been at least a few paragraphs in order to actually bring a character back to life in order to add another chapter of irrelevant information to put questions I wasn't really asking to rest.
I do love Kellerman's books and plots. But it angers me so much to see Milo discarded like that every other time.