Shovel ready by Adam Sternbergh review

Sorry I have been away for awhile but I was in a writing competition. This is partly  why it took awhile for me to finish this book. I would like to say it is the only reason but as much as I liked the premise of this book the simple things like the lack of using quotation marks drove me bonkers! 

As a writer myself I know the most important thing is to allow the reader to "see" the action. As I reader I also enjoy being immersed inside the pages that takes me along for the journey. Now with that being said I do not like when it feels as though I am reading a screenplay in the wrong form which a lot of this book was written like. 

I get the lead character Spademan has lost his lack of sympathy and it is brought on page in very clipped sentences. But I found between that and no use of quotation marks disturbing for the fact I spent more time trying to figure out is he thinking or actually talking to someone? 

During my journey of reading this book I felt my mind wonder but not into the story. It wondered on things that needed done. This was not a good sign but I needed to finish this book and so as I started reading today being on page 89 of the 243 pages I had to force myself to focus and get through the book if anything just so I can go on to the next one on my pile. I have to say once I got the no quotation/ short sentences in my brain & forced passed them I felt okay about the novel but not great. 

So what is it about: 

It's about a garbage man who turns to a hit man after a dirty bomb goes off in New York.  He has no sympathy and does not want to hear anyone's story as to why they want someone killed (which made me think of the Transporter, don't open the package), that is until he is asked to kill an evangelists daughter who went on the run and the evangelist is the one who wants her dead. 

When Spademan finds her he sees she is pregnant and this makes him think back to the wife he lost in the bombings. 

The evangelist has found a way to give the people a taste of heaven by what they call "tapping in" think in terms of total recall and the matrix. It is what it reminded me of. 

But I did finish the majority of this book in a day and it started to hold my interest but I faultered too much along the way so I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars. 

I received this book free from bloggingforbooks.org to read and give my honest review