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Listed as a thriller, “River Bodies” beckoned with all the usual temptations the genre offers. I hoped that author Karen Katchur would deliver more than the same tired clichés that normally accompany a book about returning to the old home town during a murder investigation, but it never happened.

It wasn’t the writing style that caused me to lose connection with the book. Ms. Katchur delivers in this area, serving up a prose that describes as well as illuminates, peppering her words with images that at times felt more than real. This is her five-star element.

Rather, it was the inconsistencies in the plot elements that caused questions to form and to drag me out of the book each time one of them appeared. Our heroine Becca lives just across the river from her home town, close enough that she can identify minute clothing details of someone standing on the other side. While I might be able to accept that she had reasons never to return home (even with it being so close), that didn’t excuse the fact that while she wouldn’t cross the river’s bridge, many others living in the town probably would. However, no one had seen her for years (except for her cousin John, who she “met” regularly when she spotted him on the other side of the river.

The small town of Portland is home to not one, but possibly two decent-sized (more than twenty-five) motorcycle gangs. Possible, but not probable, and with the closest large city hours away, the probability is further reduced. There are more inconsistencies, but I hesitate to list them all without revealing portions of the plot.

Characterizations were good, providing enough background to justify each character’s actions. Everyone, that is, except for the killer. After establishing justification for the most recent killing, the killer’s reasoning abruptly changed, and it didn’t fit with some of the other important scenes in the book. This flaw was large enough to leave me shaking my head during the last part of the story.

Overall, good story and a wonderful writing style, with Ms. Katchur deftly switching between past and current events, slowly revealing bits and pieces until the entire tale is laid out in front of us. Some of the plot elements were ragged, pulling the story down from potential heights of greatness into something that is still better than many of today’s offerings. Three-and-a-half stars.


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River Bodies Northampton County Book 1 eBook Karen Katchur Reviews

Well, I have a hard time saying anything positive about this story as I feel like this whole book has been plagiarized from the great TV show “Sons of Anarchy.” Basically every character is from the TV show with different names. It is completely appalling that this has been allowed to happen. I will list all the things stolen from the TV show.
1. Father figure who was lead member of Motorcycle club (MC)
2. Son who is reluctant to take fathers place as the head of that same MC
3. Son who finds peace when working on his late fathers bike and subsequently riding it.
4. The son kills the man who took over as the head of the MC after his father died.
5. When cops finally come for the son, he kills himself instead of being taken in.
6. Idealistic cop who grew up in the town and is trying with all his might to catch one of the club members in a crime
7. Girl who grew up in the town and around the MC who then leaves the town to pursue a medical career only to come back home as a mature adult ready to face the truth
8. A corrupt police chief who covers evidence and then gets cancer and dies
9. A town that sort of ignores the violence from the MC because of the benefits it brings.
10. The MC runs illegal guns
11. A new chief of police who is reluctantly backed into a corner and had to break the law to help the MC

Then there is the whole issue with the name of the club in the book vs. the name of the club on the TV show. In the book it’s the Scions and the tv show they are called the Sons. Scions, sons, scions, sons, scions, sons... see where I’m going with that.
Now let’s get to the story itself. There was zero mystery, zero suspense, and zero thrills.
We still never find out why John kills the second guy. We know he did something to his niece but we never find out what he did to her or the MC to deserve death. Also we do know that the victims had to be some kind of lower life people who we do not feel bad for at all. We are not made to feel bad for the victims at all.
The characters were ok, but not developed at all. There were giant gaping holes in the characters and it was extremely annoying.
All that being said, the author should be completely ashamed of herself for STEALING these characters and the entire premise of the book from an awesome TV show. There is no easy way to say it. This was was a stolen story and I will never read anything else by this author because she can’t spend enough time to come up with an actual original story.
If you are looking at this book as an option for your October First Reads selection I strongly recommend that you choose another book. I’m about halfway through now and I think I’m going to give up on this book so I thought I’d warn my fellow readers. I hate when descriptions leave out important elements of the book like the fact that this book involves a biker gang. Right away we follow the killer and learn about his gang. For me a biker gang is not at all interesting. A corpse mysteriously killed and found in a lake could be interesting, unless before it’s found you know who did it. Now there could be something else going on but right away in the beginning that’s what you know as the reader. The POV will jump around between Becca, this killer in a gang and perhaps to the detective Parker. Becca is not the greatest protagonist. She’s stuck in her childhood, with lots of flashbacks, and not the strongest of women which annoys me. At the halfway mark we have just a glimpse of Parker who is so far a cookie cutter detective with no personality. Unfortunately there’s nothing to recommend this book so I wish I’d gone with the other book that started with someone running with a dog, it has to be better than this one.
Listed as a thriller, “River Bodies” beckoned with all the usual temptations the genre offers. I hoped that author Karen Katchur would deliver more than the same tired clichés that normally accompany a book about returning to the old home town during a murder investigation, but it never happened.

It wasn’t the writing style that caused me to lose connection with the book. Ms. Katchur delivers in this area, serving up a prose that describes as well as illuminates, peppering her words with images that at times felt more than real. This is her five-star element.

Rather, it was the inconsistencies in the plot elements that caused questions to form and to drag me out of the book each time one of them appeared. Our heroine Becca lives just across the river from her home town, close enough that she can identify minute clothing details of someone standing on the other side. While I might be able to accept that she had reasons never to return home (even with it being so close), that didn’t excuse the fact that while she wouldn’t cross the river’s bridge, many others living in the town probably would. However, no one had seen her for years (except for her cousin John, who she “met” regularly when she spotted him on the other side of the river.

The small town of Portland is home to not one, but possibly two decent-sized (more than twenty-five) motorcycle gangs. Possible, but not probable, and with the closest large city hours away, the probability is further reduced. There are more inconsistencies, but I hesitate to list them all without revealing portions of the plot.

Characterizations were good, providing enough background to justify each character’s actions. Everyone, that is, except for the killer. After establishing justification for the most recent killing, the killer’s reasoning abruptly changed, and it didn’t fit with some of the other important scenes in the book. This flaw was large enough to leave me shaking my head during the last part of the story.

Overall, good story and a wonderful writing style, with Ms. Katchur deftly switching between past and current events, slowly revealing bits and pieces until the entire tale is laid out in front of us. Some of the plot elements were ragged, pulling the story down from potential heights of greatness into something that is still better than many of today’s offerings. Three-and-a-half stars.