{"id":96,"date":"2005-07-16T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:14:43","slug":"blood-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/96","title":{"rendered":"Blood Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blood Shot<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (1988) Sara Paretsky<\/a><\/p>\n

V.I. Warshawski reluctantly heads back to the old neighborhood–her childhood next door neighbor wants her help in solving the mystery of her past. V.I.’s mother had befriended the single mother next door, and made V.I. take care of Caroline, the little girl. Now, as her mother lies dying, Caroline begs V.I. to look into the past.<\/p>\n

Again, the story is good, but V.I. is still an asshole, and I’m still having a hard time understanding why she has any friends, or her aquaintances even speak to her.<\/p>\n

And this story wasn’t as good as the others. I had several major plot points figured out relatively quickly, which was okay, since I don’t mind reading mysteries multiple times, but I was left wondering what was taking everyone else so long to figure it out.<\/p>\n

And I was maddened by the Lotty in this book. She’s a doctor, yet she wasn’t able to comprehend simple blood test results? Come on. There is no way that she should not have missed the obvious conclusions. I can see her saying that she couldn’t make an expert diagnosis, but there is no way that a doctor–especially a general practitioner–should have missed the meaning of those blood tests. <\/p>\n

I can easily beleive that V.I. didn’t understand the results, but there is no way I’m going to beleive that a general practitioner–especially one as brilliant as Lotty is suppose to be–is going to miss the signifigance of those results.<\/p>\n

So, I’m getting more and more annoyed with some things in this series, but I’m still reading. At least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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