Reviews of Enigma

I couldn't agree more with diane2014. Page after page description of their designer clothes and its cost and how Stuart looked like a model etc etc left me very frustrated and I found myself jumping several paragraphs, sometimes pages even to get to the real story at hand! Nobody cares about this lengthy description and it only leaves the reader confused and frustrated!
Editing would do a lot of good to your story!
Thanks.

I completely agree with David Howells' and Clair Roxanna's reviews below. This book could have done with serious editing. First of all, I did like the characters; good pairing between Love and Struart. I liked the story. I liked the dog to give Love some humanity. I liked the investigation. What I did not like was page after page of designer labels and cost (who cares) too much detail. It's enough to describe a few items of clothing to get the idea that someone is well-dressed or not. You don't have to describe what someone is wearing in every scene. And that goes for room descriptions as well. I'd read several pages where I'd realize nothing happened except someone took off their coat. So I ended up skipping a lot of description to get through it. I did not like the number of times you describe getting on and off an elevator in exactly the same way, or Love taking out a cigarette and his lighter the same way. I couple of times is enough. It was like you had written these paragraphs and dropped them in every so often as filler. Therefore you could have pared it down to a 250 page book and tightened it up and it would have really improved it. Also very bad editing, for instance the scars were on the victims stomach, but were on her chest in another page. Where Carol's name should have been in a paragraph, Monica's name was inserted. These things left me very frustrated, because you had the makings of very good story, and I would like to see the team of Love and Stuart show up again, but PLEASE leave out all the extraneous and repetitive filler, it only bogged down the story.
For the characters and story I would give it five stars, but with all the negatives I mentioned, I would have to lower it to three stars. I hope you take the time to edit and redo it, and I would look forward to reading the second in a series.

My interest in Enigma steadily declined from the start and I quit at 31%. There is too much filler and the author seems to be obsessed with designer labels. She told the designer name, price and location where the article was purchased until it was boring. On my last page Love took off his Austin Reed Donegal jacket after he'd dropped his Samuel Windsor linen jacket at the cleaners but still got away without his Peter Christian navy woollen Reefer. Well lottie da. I couldn't care less. What I do want to know is that he took off his jacket. I don't care that he went to the cleaners or didn't wear his heavy coat. All this does is slow the story down and cause snoring. Kindness gets it a 3.0 rating.