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This book didn't have a clue what it wanted to be. A sales pitch on Christianity? The Christian commentary was very bizarre. Just when you're starting to become interested in the storyline of the book, up pops this extremely irrelevant and out of context religious discussion. The jumps are so poorly done and are so extreme that it completely and effectively takes you out of the now of the storyline, and wanders around until you're bored and REALLY begin to think that the book just isn't worth the silly sidetrack this author feels compelled to take every chapter. I don't have anything against religious themes or storylines, but the way these were placed in the book were just very poorly done. Also, I got sick of the author repeating ad nauseam that Science + Christianity = OK (as long as you don't believe in Evolution). One statement of this opinion would have been more than enough to make her point, and placing it appropriately in the book would have been essential. A romance novel? If the author was attempting a romance novel, she needs to direct her attention to a different subject matter. There was more chemistry between the parrot and the protagonist than there was between the two men with whom she is supposed to have an attraction. A mystery? What mystery? I had the perpetrator figured out, immediately, and was bored with the protagonist's futile and bumbling search throughout the rest of the book. The whole thing was very haphazard. There was no there there. A comedy? The attempts at comedy were so lame, it was downright painful. Everything felt forced or fell flat on the ground with a very loud THUD (can you feel the comedy?) A CSI-type crime scene story? She finds a hair, uses a pair of tweezers, a plastic bag and saves the day? Really? Seriously???? A thriller? Wow...a burning house, pipe bomb and locked in a trunk. Tired, tired, tired (and I wasn't thrilled in the least). Basically, the author attempted all of these things, and succeeded at none of them. She needs to pick a style and work on becoming effective in that genre, before putting everything in a metaphorical blender and hoping it doesn't make the reader sick to their stomach while drinking the mixture. Lastly is the author's most heinous mistake: Who the heck is Timmy? While locked in the trunk of a car, the protagonist dreams about Timmy and Timmy being kidnapped. What?! Where did Timmy come from? Did this happen in another book by this author and she just decided to use it as filler for this book? Perhaps she felt it would make the scene feel more thrilling if she brought up something about a different kidnap to make this kidnap seem more frightening? Instead, it came out of nowhere and was just completely nonsensical. This book is an F.