Janet (iamltr)'s Reviews > The Puzzle Master
The Puzzle Master
by
by
I had a bit of a love/hate relationship to this story while I was reading it.
I loved the way it was written but man, I did not realize how overwhelmingly dull really complex puzzles were. And this whole story was a puzzle.
One with no real ending.
So in this one we have a fella named Mike Brink, who had a head injury and when he woke up, had the ability to see exactly how a puzzle, any puzzle, was solved. I am going to admit something here. Brink was boring. I mean, he had this whole gift, was apparently so attractive that people didn't believe he did puzzles, but was as exciting as a dish rag.
Well one day he is called to come to a prison to see if he could figure out a puzzle that a convicted female murderer created. He of course, hopped into his truck and went over.
This starts the whole present time story. There is also the story happening in 1909 that starts with a letter that begins the book. Yes, its confusing and it stays confusing throughout the whole story.
Of course Brink becomes obsessed with the female prisoner and at the end gets a HFN? I am not sure as its kind of creepy that he was all up in her business.
But that is not where the book ends, nope, one of the baddies has the honor of what the last chapter was about and we find out that something actually worked.
This book had no real genre. Was it a suspense? Horror? Was is supernatural?
Who knows.
I loved the way it was written but man, I did not realize how overwhelmingly dull really complex puzzles were. And this whole story was a puzzle.
One with no real ending.
So in this one we have a fella named Mike Brink, who had a head injury and when he woke up, had the ability to see exactly how a puzzle, any puzzle, was solved. I am going to admit something here. Brink was boring. I mean, he had this whole gift, was apparently so attractive that people didn't believe he did puzzles, but was as exciting as a dish rag.
Well one day he is called to come to a prison to see if he could figure out a puzzle that a convicted female murderer created. He of course, hopped into his truck and went over.
This starts the whole present time story. There is also the story happening in 1909 that starts with a letter that begins the book. Yes, its confusing and it stays confusing throughout the whole story.
Of course Brink becomes obsessed with the female prisoner and at the end gets a HFN? I am not sure as its kind of creepy that he was all up in her business.
But that is not where the book ends, nope, one of the baddies has the honor of what the last chapter was about and we find out that something actually worked.
This book had no real genre. Was it a suspense? Horror? Was is supernatural?
Who knows.
Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read
The Puzzle Master.
Sign In »