Beka Cooper was a good book about police officers. It had an interesting plot with the shadow snake and Crookshank but it was written in JOURNAL FORM! This distracted me so much because I was wondering how Beka Cooper (the main character who is a “police puppy” training to be a “police dog”) remembers all the quotations with such precision, how she finds the time to write these entries and how she can stay awake to write them. On the page where she “accidently” spilled ink was a very sloppy attempt to try making the journal format work. Also, Beka seems to remember to write in the journal even after she gets so drunk that she cannot even spell words correctly. It was still a good read despite the journal form. In the middle of a passage, you just forget you’re reading a journal. I recommend this book for the plot and how it is written.
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