Death by Facebook by Everett Peacock
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Not really my kind of thing. I was sold on the title, thinking it would be quite geeky but facebook itself gets a couple of mentions in the story.
There are a few plot strands and a decent cast of characters, but I think the story was trying to appeal to too many audiences at once. Chick-lit, crime, spiritual, thriller… Just too much for one story. The spiritual stuff in particular I found a bit overly mawkish in places and that kind of stuff really isn’t my cup of tea in the first place.
Without giving away any spoilers (I hope!) the vulcanology material seems quite well researched and written. Had the book been a thriller or disaster story set purely around that, I’d likely have enjoyed it from what I read.
But, it’s just too much of a melting pot for me.
