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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Don Winslow doesn’t miss.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn't sleep properly for 3 days while reading this book. It's so tense. Excellent though, a look at a side of life few know, and the codes & rules if that life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Torture, Murder
Yes...I just love these epic Don Winslow gigantic crime trilogies about back stabbing, and front stabbing, and completely disorganized organized crimes all usually hanging and falling based on the foibles of human nature we all cannot escape... and this new trilogy hits it out of the park, centering on the Rhode Island mobs in the late 80s... tons of bloodshed, it's the Godfather meets the Sopranos with touches of every other Omerta based drama you can think of... all good, I'm here for it. More please.
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
eh. i guess. this just never really sucked me in. if you are deep into the mob fiction scene, maybe this is your bag, but it was just so basic for me. a small slight leads to a gang war, sure, but its hit after predictable hit. not very engaging dialogue, and the blatant homophobia might be accurate for the character profile, it just didn’t sit well with me, like the storyteller was letting us in on the homophobia with a smirk and a shrug. it was also a little stereotype heavy for me.
Any new novel from Don Winslow - to my mind the greatest living crime writer - is always a major event. City on Fire, the first in a new trilogy, is right up there with his best.
A drunken grope at a beach party sparks off a bloody war between the Irish and Italian mobs in 1980s Providence, Rhode Island. We follow several characters, but largely Danny Ryan, a longshoreman and Irish mob debt collector whose father used to head up the business until the booze got hold of him. As the bodies start to pile up, Danny starts to rise in the organisation and has to dig deep into the darker parts of his soul to survive.
Winslow manages with this novel to both show us what makes him so great - his staccato style, his dialogue, his action - but also widens his repertoire with this move into writing about gang warfare. It's a seamless transition from his seminal Cartel trilogy and his earlier PI and beach noir novels.
Bloody, brutal, brilliant. This is the crime novel of the year. It would be the crime novel of any damn year. It's so, so good and I can't wait for part two.
A drunken grope at a beach party sparks off a bloody war between the Irish and Italian mobs in 1980s Providence, Rhode Island. We follow several characters, but largely Danny Ryan, a longshoreman and Irish mob debt collector whose father used to head up the business until the booze got hold of him. As the bodies start to pile up, Danny starts to rise in the organisation and has to dig deep into the darker parts of his soul to survive.
Winslow manages with this novel to both show us what makes him so great - his staccato style, his dialogue, his action - but also widens his repertoire with this move into writing about gang warfare. It's a seamless transition from his seminal Cartel trilogy and his earlier PI and beach noir novels.
Bloody, brutal, brilliant. This is the crime novel of the year. It would be the crime novel of any damn year. It's so, so good and I can't wait for part two.