Title: Lazy
Product review: As a Philadelphian, I was excited to read this book, a mystery seeped in Philadelphia's corrupt politics by a local journalist. This didn't cut it. For all its mentions of locale, this book had no sense of place. It could have taken place in Cleveland.The characters had no heart. The plot limped along thanks to a seemingly endless series of convenient coincidences, constantly painting itself into a corner and suddenly finding a secret trap door. After all that, the ending was a rushed little chapter tacked on without tying up half the loose ends. It was like author Bill Kent just got sick of writing the thing and stopped. Which is pretty much how I felt reading it.If visiting Philly by book, do yourself a favor and read all three of Steve Lopez's novels instead. Heck, read W.C Fields's tomb stone.
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