Book Review: False Pretenses
By
Author: Catherine Coulter
ISBN: 0-453-00641-8
Genre: Fiction/Suspense/Mystery
Pages: 380 pages
Publication: New American Library 1988
Rating: 3 stars (you can look here to read about my rating system)
I have been a fan of Catherine Coulter’s books – specifically her FBI series – for quite awhile. Her books are always very suspenseful with great story lines – so much so that I usually hate even putting the book down!
I have to admit that I had a harder time with this one though. This is one of her older books and I think she must have gotten better with time. This book did have a good story line and it was, for the most part, pretty suspenseful which kept me interested enough to keep me reading it but some of the dialogue and topics in the book were a little much for me. There was quite a bit of bad language and some pretty vulgar/risque material and I am not a fan of any of that kind of thing. I came close to putting it down a couple of times early on in the book but since I was familiar with her other works I kept reading. It did seem to get a little better further into the story and the plot of the story did keep me very interested so I feel like it did end up being a good read. I just wouldn’t say it’s anywhere close to my favorite of hers.
So, if you don’t mind putting up with the bad in order to get to the good, this book is a good read. If you don’t want to subject yourself to any bad language or anything then this book is not for you.
