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Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
by Elle Cosimano
I think it is time for me to lay Finlay Donovan to rest and this book was perfect for that.
I won't go too much into detail about plot since this is the fourth book in the series, however; if you're familiar with what the last three books have been about - you'll be happy to know that this finally wraps everything up nicely and that it's a good stopping point. (I believe there are going to be additional titles in the series).
A couple of things:
1. I literally could not wait for this book to end. I won't lie, a few times I wanted to just put it down and walk away and be like, "ok, that's enough for me"...but I am also someone that feels the need to complete things so I felt like I had to push myself through even thought I literally. did. not. care.
Don't get me wrong the story isn't bad; there is the same quirkiness and little side missions and all this mystery solving going on, but I personally feel that Finlay was just in too deep and I can't believe she managed away out of it.
2. At least the last two books have been blurbed by Janet Evanovich who wrote the Stephanie Plum series. If you don't know this - I am positively in love with Stephanie Plum. While I feel like the Finlay series is aiming to have the quirkiness and comedy that the Stephanie Plum series has, I feel like it first and foremost does not do it as well, but also secondly takes a lot of the same ideas and tries to do it just a little different and that doesn't sit well with me. I 100% understand that this is a series - just like S.P. - that you have to suspend your disbelief to read because these are definitely NOT things that would happen in real-life or the real-world. That is not the problem for me. The problem is the execution..
All-in-all, it's been a good ride while it's happened but I do not know that I will go any further in the series - unless some of my trusted folks come out and say that it's really, really worth it.
I won't go too much into detail about plot since this is the fourth book in the series, however; if you're familiar with what the last three books have been about - you'll be happy to know that this finally wraps everything up nicely and that it's a good stopping point. (I believe there are going to be additional titles in the series).
A couple of things:
1. I literally could not wait for this book to end. I won't lie, a few times I wanted to just put it down and walk away and be like, "ok, that's enough for me"...but I am also someone that feels the need to complete things so I felt like I had to push myself through even thought I literally. did. not. care.
Don't get me wrong the story isn't bad; there is the same quirkiness and little side missions and all this mystery solving going on, but I personally feel that Finlay was just in too deep and I can't believe she managed away out of it.
2. At least the last two books have been blurbed by Janet Evanovich who wrote the Stephanie Plum series. If you don't know this - I am positively in love with Stephanie Plum. While I feel like the Finlay series is aiming to have the quirkiness and comedy that the Stephanie Plum series has, I feel like it first and foremost does not do it as well, but also secondly takes a lot of the same ideas and tries to do it just a little different and that doesn't sit well with me. I 100% understand that this is a series - just like S.P. - that you have to suspend your disbelief to read because these are definitely NOT things that would happen in real-life or the real-world. That is not the problem for me. The problem is the execution..
All-in-all, it's been a good ride while it's happened but I do not know that I will go any further in the series - unless some of my trusted folks come out and say that it's really, really worth it.