Negative Positive
Title: Tedious and slow
Review: I read all the available Wexfords and most of the other Rendells years ago and I thought I'd go back and catch up on the stuff she'd written since then. Ugh, was this one a stinker. Not a person in the book is interesting enough to keep you reading and the pace is slow, circular and monotonously unenthralling. The author's notion of "casting a cold eye, on life, on death" is simply to disapprove of everyone, their housekeeping, their child-rearing and their lifestyles. And social outrage -- nomatter how sympathetic -- does not human interest make. Dull.
Is the review positive or negative? 