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2.51 AVERAGE
2.51 AVERAGE
DNF. I got approximately one third through before I decided it wasn't worth finishing. The Cari Mora just felt problematic, cruel and boastful.
Not for me.
Not for me.
It seems a lot of people hated this book. I did not. It was not Hannibal Lecter, but then again, how can you really recreate that? The setting reminded me a lot of a Carl Hiaasen book, which I really enjoyed. Cari Mora is a woman living illegally in the US. She is care taker for what was one Pablo Escobar's house. Drawn by rumors of hidden gold, two groups attempt to find a hidden vault in a bloody fight for the finish. I somewhat struggled to differentiate between characters, but I really like Cari and her will to survive, as well as her backstory. I did feel like some of the character development was a little flat, but overall, it was a decent read.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
DNF at 20% kinda hard to follow, wasn't getting into it, no rating
When I got this ARC I said "WOW, Thomas Harris" and was prepared to read a terrifying, gritty and exciting book.
I had high expectations and unfortunately I was disappointed.
It's not a bad thriller but I found it a bit boring.
The villain si so over the top so I found him funny and not terrifying. Cari Mora is more interesting but it reminded me of a lot of other kick-ass heroine.
There were some moments when Mr Harris seems to remember how he wrote the Silence of the Lambs and you start hoping. It doesn't last and you go back to usual tran tran.
I have to admit that I like the crocodile but I was quite bored on the whole.
Not my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
I had high expectations and unfortunately I was disappointed.
It's not a bad thriller but I found it a bit boring.
The villain si so over the top so I found him funny and not terrifying. Cari Mora is more interesting but it reminded me of a lot of other kick-ass heroine.
There were some moments when Mr Harris seems to remember how he wrote the Silence of the Lambs and you start hoping. It doesn't last and you go back to usual tran tran.
I have to admit that I like the crocodile but I was quite bored on the whole.
Not my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
medium-paced
Overall, this was disappointing. It's the first Harris book I've actually read, and it didn't live up to anything I thought it would. I liked some of the characters, particularly the titular Cari, but thought there were far too many storylines and characters to make it a streamlined tale. Hans-Peter was a rip off Hannibal Lecter but with none of the charisma, and this just made him uninteresting - I didn't care at all about him so didn't care when he slipped out of the book for a while and honestly thought he was mostly irrelevant. The actual plot of getting the gold from under Pablo Escobar's house was intriguing, but the heist quickly became boring - how interesting can you make it when it was just working mechanics on a huge metal cube. The biggest redeeming quality of this book was Cari Mora herself - I really enjoyed her and her backstory, and seeing her be ruthless and yet kind was refreshing. She alone brought the book to 2 stars!
Nothing worse than seeing an author who has written some fantastic books be stuck with this whopping dud. I only finished it because it was short and out of some misplaced hope that Harris would regain some of the magic of his early thrillers. I was wrong. There was no plot to speak of. It was just a series of things happening to characters I couldn't care less about. The only character with any definition at all was Cari Mora, and she was two-dimensional at best.
There might have been a good book in here, but it felt edited to within an inch of its life and felt like it needed another hundred or so pages to fill in the blanks. It felt like Harris took his outline and decided to publish that instead. This wasn't a novel, but rather the bones to create a novel.
Don't waste your time with this piece of crap. If you want to read Harris, go back to Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs.
There might have been a good book in here, but it felt edited to within an inch of its life and felt like it needed another hundred or so pages to fill in the blanks. It felt like Harris took his outline and decided to publish that instead. This wasn't a novel, but rather the bones to create a novel.
Don't waste your time with this piece of crap. If you want to read Harris, go back to Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs.
DNF. I thought this would be a relatively easy read thanks to big font and short chapters but it's a slog; I literally don't understand the writing style or what's going on. Wish I'd read reviews before I picked it up, and I won't be continuing.