Kb's Reviews > Exposed

NOTE: This book has apparently been published with a couple of different titles in English. The book I read was called "Exposed" and had a modern, edgy graphic on the cover*, typical of the mysteries I like to read. I probably would not have read it under the title "Studio Sex" with a blond woman in disarray on a pink cover. It looks like a completely different genre.

* I have since been able to change to an edition with the correct title and artwork.
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More of a 2.5 than a 3. I had some trouble with this book. I liked individual parts of it, for a while, and then things would just blow up and go off in a completely different direction. Sometimes events would skip ahead so fast I was worried I had missed a few pages by accident, but that was never the case; it's just how the book was written.

There were a lot of inconsistencies and unresolved issues in the book, but there was one little thing that really bugged me. Annika was supposedly pale and frail and hardly ever ate, but when it came to getting an alternate job that required her to wear a skimpy outfit, all of a sudden she was large-chested enough to fill out the bikini top of a woman who had breast implants. Okay, fine, maybe. But THEN we are asked to believe Annika's statement that she hardly ever wore a bra. Even though she worked in a professional office environment surrounded by grumpy old men, and she was big-busted. These things do not go together! (And that's just one little thing. There were other, bigger things that bugged me, that I can't explain in detail without spoilers. But suffice to say that Annika's central, domestic situation and the ongoing evidence of how certain relationships developed over time was a huge issue for me.)

Anyway. This was an altogether unsatisfying book. Not completely unreadable, just confusing and ultimately disappointing.