*Book source ~ NetGalley
Title ~ The Woman Who Stopped Traffic
Author ~ Daniel Pembrey
Published ~ 15 July 2013
Genre ~ Thriller
My Rating ~ 1 bite
DNF at 8%
From Goodreads:
It’s the
dawn of social media; Facebook is unknown and World of Warcraft is the world's
biggest online game. An unhinged Hungarian-American Internet magnate is trying
to take over it all, using soon-to-IPO web sensation Clamor.us. But nefarious
content is coming to light on the Clamor social networking site, pointing to
sex trafficking.
Enter
Natalie Chevalier, glamorous ex-Head of Security at a large Seattle software
company... with a father she never knew, a disastrous track record with men and
a scandal that forced her from her old job.
I had to DNF at 8% due to excessive use of
technobabble and mind-numbing stock and financial-type run on. I swear my eyes actually
glazed over. 8% in and I had not a single clue about the story and zero feel
for the characters. I feared the rest of the book would be just as bad so I
jumped ship. The book is fiction, not non-fiction. Being factually correct is
one thing, explaining everything in minute detail is another. An editor should really have culled all that.
OUCH! I hate it when that happens. The book cover is not too bad though. :)
ReplyDeleteIkr, but what ya gonna do? *shrugs* There are a couple of book covers for this one. They aren't bad. :)
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