Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Well I DNFed this at 35 percent. I could not force myself to keep reading this one. I don’t know how a new series starring Letty Davenport was so boring and also repetitive in equal measure, but it was. Letty has never been my favorite (see prior reviews of Lucas Davenport series) and this book didn’t make me want to get to know the character more. Sandford really does turn her into a Mary Sue similar to Dean Koontz and how he writes women now.
“The Investigator” follows Letty Davenport, adopted daughter of Lucas and Weather. For long-time readers of the series, we last left Letty with about to graduate college. She was of course supposedly some wunderkind in college and Lucas said that she could pretty much do anything. When the book opens we have Letty doing a break-in based on work she is doing for a Senator. But Letty is boring during her 9 to 5 job. And when the Senator proposes that Letty do more work that needs more finesse and would allow her to carry a gun, she’s all for it. Now Letty is working for Homeland Security and has a sort of partner who is former Delta Force. No you can’t see my face, but you can tell what expression I am making right now right? With Letty and her partner off to figure out why crude oil is disappearing, the whole book seems to be a set up of some big old terrorism plot line and I tapped out.
Letty is not the heir apparent to the Davenport series. Sorry, she’s not that interesting. There’s all of these flashbacks to the times that Letty has killed people and I just did not care. Sandford should have referenced that once or twice, but to just whole sale lift parts of prior books and just stick them here made me shake my head. I assume they did that since there may be readers who have not read the Davenport series and he didn’t want them totally in the dark, but there should have been a happy medium there. Also Letty is just like Lucas via her eyes, her manner, her ability to work out, and her liking good clothes. She’s the male version of Lucas and not the latter Lucas, but the ones from the earlier books which I did not enjoy.
There is zero character development of other characters. There’s a reason why I referred to the Senator as Senator and the special ops guy as Delta Force. Pretty much everyone is in awe of Letty and thinks she’s smarter than the local police.
The flow was pretty bad and by the time I got to the 35 percent point I just decided enough was enough.
