first book I've read by her. Pretty good police procedural, suspense novel. First in series involving Det. April Woo and psychiatrist Jason Frank.

If I had to pick a word to describe this book, that word would be "okay".

It's not great, but it's not terrible either. It's just okay.

At times it's rather graphic and crude, at others it has character dialogue that seems straight out of someones fan fiction novel, yet it also has a pretty decent plot amongst that, and a reasonable story to tell.

The story is that of April Woo Chinese-American detective, and boy does the author spend a lot of time really drilling into you about how she's Chinese-American, to the detriment of the story's momentum I thought. Anyway, it's the story of April Woo, detective investigating a mission persons case which dovetails with the case of an actress, who recently starred in a sexually graphic art film, receiving creepy letters that have her psychologist husband rather concerned. There's also a rather unstable man who likes to torture and burn women.

For all the descriptive nature within the novel, unfortunately the ending felt rather brisk. I have the full set of the nine books in this series however at this point I'm not sure whether they'll be staying or going out the window, this wasn't exactly a nail biter and at times I was putting it down to stare out the window at birds flying by which is something I usually don't do when reading.

So yes, there's a decent story buried within the pages of this book, but there's quite a bit of chaff around it. ( )

Burning Time is the first book from Leslie Glass’s April Woo Series. This is the first book I’ve read by Ms. Glass. The book had a lot of good reviews on Amazon. I’m surprised so many people gave it such high ratings. To me it was just alright.Positive points. The plot was somewhat suspenseful. The characters had a lot of depth. I really didn’t care for April Woo. It was Sanchez, I thought was an interesting character.What I didn’t enjoy about the book was the rushed ending. The simple dialogue. I have all the other book from this series on my to be read shelf. I’ll continue with the series, just to see where the author takes the characters. ( )

Un roman facile a lire... facile a prévoir la suite des évènements... déja lus mieux mais dans l'ensemble c'est bien... ( )

Not a favorite of the group. The plot was a bit too gory for some of the members and April Woo did not appeal. ( )