Tales of fight fixing and double crossing has been at the heart of crime story telling since the late 1800s. It is a proven plot line like a guy turning into a wolf or another guy wearing a dinner jacket climbing out of a coffin to attack swooning babes with a peck on the neck.
So
I have no issue in the premise; no issue with very familiar plot.
The
book reads fast and well enough; as a collection of seemingly disparate though
colliding vignettes. The character description and development is exceptional,
however though I think the plot is uneven in terms of action and chronology
leaving transitions, in a couple of chapters, short- handed. And for me, characters
seem to be buried and lost for a time to the point that they are forgotten.
The
ending I found to be predictable and disappointing. While vengeance is always a hallmark of
these stories to rectify the evil with good; the ending couldn’t sucker punch
me because I saw the round house coming a mile away.
While
“The Fix” is an entertaining tale for the most part, I counted it out.
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