Title: Too Narrow a Focus
Review: When I got this book, I thought, "Finally, a book on thriller." Unfortunately, what I discovered was that the author did what everyone else does when talking about thriller--talk about the crime subgenre as if that's all a thriller is. What happened to the action-adventure thrillers, the medical thrillers, the political thrillers, the romantic thrillers? There's at least a dozen thriller subgenres, but you wouldn't know it from this book. From a book about Thriller, I would have expected more than a discourse on crime fiction.And why are so few women writers even mentioned? I think I could count the number on one hand.Unfortunately, this book continues the myth that all thrillers are about crime when they're not. It has too narrow a focus for anything more than one star.
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