Tori's Reviews > Did Sid?

You know, if I didn't read so much, I probably would have enjoyed this book a lot more. As it is, I have become a lot pickier about the books I read now, and tend to enjoy books with a lot more substance. Perhaps I was not the target audience for this book......

Robins is such a nice person, and this is such a nice almost G-rated book that I hate to complain. But, it just felt like it needed more to happen. The story is about Sid, a 20-something guy with a nice girlfriend, who owns a deli in Sacramento which he inherited after his father died a few months back. Sid sees everyone as resembling someone famous, which was cute at first, but tiring after a short while. anyway - someone has been shooting at famous landmarks in Sacramento and has been dubbed by the media as the Capital Shooter. For some reason, there must not have been much going on news-wise in the city, because it was a constant BIG news item. A PG-rated part of the story came when it was discovered that the Humpty Dumpty landmark in Fairytale Town was shot in the crotch.

Sid is not overly ambitious or overly smart, just an ordinary guy who wants to get to the bottom of this mystery. Which he does, but I find it hard to believe the police could have been so negligent.

This was a quick read, and it was fun to read about Sacramento in the 70's, and Robin's sweetness came through in his writing, but it just wasn't for me.