Big Red Tequila

Rick Riordan is a FANTASTIC writer, so writing-wise this book was awesome, but story-wise it was pretty terrible; everything was so generic that I didn't care much for the characters and just saw this as a waste of my valuable reading time. This book deserves one star, but I'm only giving it two because of how much I love Rick's writing style. If you want to read something that lets Rick's writing talent truly shine, I suggest you read the Percy Jackson series of books.

I certainly can't share this with all the many fans of Riordan's The Lightning Thief at my elementary school, but I can share it with all the adult readers who love silly mysteries. An added incentive to reading this book was its setting in San Antonio; what fun, I thought, to release this book at the Texas Library Association Conference to be held in San Antonio in April. It's been a while for me since I've finished anything close to literary fiction. Oh well. Nothing wrong with some just-for-fun reads now and then.