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| Helpless |
There's a lot going on in Daniel Palmer's
Helpless that it wouldn't be a surprise if you found yourself
helpless for the hero's predicament at the end of it all. Poor guy! Tom Hawkins, an ex-Navy SEAL, returns to Shilo to raise his teenage daughter Jill, following the murder of his ex-wife Kelly, but not everything goes as per the plan. The cops suspect him of involvement in his wife's death (naturally), then comes an anonymous blog post alleging that Tom, now a high-school soccer coach, is sleeping with one of the girls in the team, and as a final nail in his coffin, incriminating evidence is uncovered from his own cellphone and laptop, accusing him of running a child pornography ring.
Helpless and convinced that someone somewhere is out to destroy his life, Tom, with his daughter by his side, sets out to unravel the mystery. To give credit where it's due, the novel starts off strongly, in a way reminiscent of Harlan Coben's cyberthrillers, but it doesn't help that the characters are one-dimensional, and the plot is overly busy for its own good. So much so that at one point, I just wanted to know
who did it so that I could stop my mind from reeling!
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