I’ve read a number of Lisa Scottoline’s books and have enjoyed them all – that is up until “Most Wanted.” The inherent problem is that the book really goes nowhere. It talks about issues with respect to infertility and that is interesting but those parts also read like a white paper on the discussion. It feels almost like the information has been picked up somewhere else and plugged into the book.
The characters are not all that likable. Christine has become pregnant using donor sperm. Her husband, Marcus, seems to have grudgingly gone along with the concept but is surprising immature when push comes to shove.
Christine sees an accused serial murderer on television and becomes convinced that he is her donor. She becomes completely enmeshed in trying to prove his innocence so that her baby doesn’t have a serial killer for a biological father. It becomes a nature versus nurture type book but manages to avoid the issue after bringing it up.
The problem is that I simply didn’t buy into the premise. Once that happened, the rest of the book was something to read to get through versus something that I really enjoyed. I considered it an average novel but not one that I would pick up and read again in the future.
I received a complimentary copy of this book via the publisher.
