The Swiss Courier

2.5 stars
Well, this one was my least favorite Goyer book, and I'm going to blame it on the coauthor. Awkward sentences, two German profanities, and a coarse bathroom joke were just the surface of my dislikes. The amount of short pieces of a dozen or so POVs left my head spinning and it was hard to make sense of the clues because the POVs left the story fragmented rather than linear. There was a great deal of telling rather than showing and an annoying amount of technical detail instead (hey, make these characters come to life before you add all that stuff about cars and planes and such).

Just as it hit a good stride at the end, and I was enjoying the last third, it was over. And the violence was too descriptive for me...telling me things about the characters instead of showing them to me, but then showing me the violence instead of telling me, left the story-scenery lopsided toward the blood and shootings.