Review: Thrill City

Thrill City by Leigh Redhead
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

So happy to be done with this series. Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer my crime without the generous serving of porn thank you.

The only reason I read this 4th installment is because I got them free. I have some weird affliction that means I can't donate books until I've read them.

So, here we go again with the Porn Star Detective stripper-turned-private-eye. Simone is still reeling from events of the past few books (details which I've happily forgotten) but somehow still finds herself instantly entangled with the accused murderer of a writer. Chaos (and kinky sexual encounters) ensues.

Can you tell that I have no time for this drama queen? There is such an obsession on how she used to be a stripper, she's so good looking she gets bugged constantly, she loves wild sex and loves to talk about how she's out of the stripping game but gosh she REALLY misses it. If only an occasion would arise in which she could put her sexual talents to good use. (Can you hear my eyes rolling)

Meanwhile there's an actual crime of an incredibly brutal nature that's taken place but she's upset because her mum is mad at her??

But the actual mystery was still interesting enough for me to not give up completely. There is a murder, and lots of dramatic scenes between writers, and mostly I just wanted to know what the eff was going on.

There's actually so much going on in this one that it was hard to keep track of. Like, one minute she's investigating all this stuff and the next she's taking a few hours to go shopping? I could not get a grasp on the emotion of this story because it bounced between 'I'm so frightened I might pee myself' and 'weee partying and drinking and sexy sex'. My god. What a mess. I couldn't bring all the threads together and part of my putting up with everything was to get the nice cohesive storyline from the big conclusion.

As additional fuel to my ire, there's an excess of information on what everyone is wearing at all times and I could not give one single crap.

But then, the Melbourne setting is cool because I know these places.

Overall, another disaster which just didn't make a lot of sense to me and is packed with cringey moments. If you're a 'PUSSY POWER!!' kinda feminist you'll probably eat it up (excuse the pun) but this is just not my kinda thing at all. Very happy to be done with this series.

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