Book Review: The Call of the Mild

Book: The Call of the Mild (Psych book #3) by William Rabkin

Rating: 1 star

Review:

I never thought I would be giving Psych a 1 star rating but this book was not very good. It was extremely boring and I thought the story and the mystery were poorly written and the characterizations were off. Shawn and Gus didn't even seem like themselves at all. The beauty of the Psych TV series is that it's not just Shawn and Gus, it's also Detectives Lassiter and O'Hara, Chief Vick and Shawn's dad Henry, all of these wonderful and amazing characters are written into an equally wonderful and amazing show.

This book failed to capture what's great about these characters, in fact it nearly ignored Detective Juliet O'Hara and Chief Vick. It took forever for the mystery to begin and as the story dragged on I was getting to the place where I didn't care what was happening and who the murderer was.

The mystery started with Psych being hired by a teacher, Ellen Svaco to retrieve a lost necklace that she believed she lost during a school field trip. Once, they found the necklace which Shawn found at the lost and found (all while Gus had been searching the grounds), they had been held-up by a mime who took their clothes all in an attempt to get the necklace.

After they got their clothes back, they went to Ellen Svaco's home where they not only found Detective Lassiter waiting for them but also the home owner dead. From there a very diluted and very boring mystery follows.

I enjoyed reading the first book but this one was really boring, hopefully the other books in the series are not as bad as this one was because I would like to read more.