Title: Not a Bust but Not Great
Product review: Elmore Leonard has come to attract a certain audience and to create certain expectation. In Pagan Babies, Leonard has fallen from the lofty expectations that have established him as an icon of the action read. In this work, Leonard appears to have lost his way and seems to be operating on fumes rather than the racy and substantiative material in past works. I mean, I love novels with big breasts and sex scenes but do we need a piece of fiction that would cause a corpse to to do push-ups on a December day in Fargo? And what does that have to do with the storyline? Lamentably, Leonard has reverted to easy sleaze and the result is sex, sex, sex.For those still interested, it's a busty book with testosterone oozing from its pages, while every woman has an implant and the men seem to have no interest in moving the plot forward. In short, I think its shallow but worth a little steam. Leonard, however, seems to have little steam left.
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