Some reviewers seem to get it, some don’t.  I disagree with this guy more than I do with a lot of these things.

His struggle to stay faithful to his wife, despite Honey’s habit of being naked when he’s around, is one of the fine things in this book.

  That was actually one of my LEAST favorite things about the book, he wasn’t struggling much and only stayed faithful by blind luck.

Still, there’s so much yakking that people forget to get killed until way past the middle of the book. Thus, it’s not so much a whodunit as a whendoit.

  Has this guy really read any of Elmore Leonard’s books?  And he is expecting a whodunit?

You get the feeling Leonard is spinning his wheels a little, as if he knew how he wanted things to end up but wasn’t quite sure how to get there.

  This is of course exactly the opposite of how Elmore Leonard writes.

In “Up in Honey’s Room,” the appearance of “Ms.” in the vernacular of April, 1945 seems anachronistic. The matrimonial-neutral term of address for an adult woman became a little-used but accepted practice in business correspondence in the early ‘50s, but did not achieve regular usage of the sort Carl employs until the Women’s Liberation movement, led by Gloria Steinem’s magazine of that name, pressed the issue in the early ‘70s.