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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
3.5 stars
My default book genres is Crime and Thriller. I have read a lot of them over the years and have my go to authors and series that I look out for. The Kathryn Dance Series by Jeffery Deaver is just one of many of my must reads.
This was a solid thrillers with lots of twists and turns. The crimes were atrocious but not overly graphically described. There were lots of additional stories other than the main one and the development of the different relationships (family, work, romantic etc.) of the continuing characters was nicely build upon from previous books and left me wanting to know how things might continue to develop in later books.
That being said, I expected most of what came and that which I didn't guess, wasn't too surprising. Still it was still a pleasurable read and I will be back for more.
My default book genres is Crime and Thriller. I have read a lot of them over the years and have my go to authors and series that I look out for. The Kathryn Dance Series by Jeffery Deaver is just one of many of my must reads.
This was a solid thrillers with lots of twists and turns. The crimes were atrocious but not overly graphically described. There were lots of additional stories other than the main one and the development of the different relationships (family, work, romantic etc.) of the continuing characters was nicely build upon from previous books and left me wanting to know how things might continue to develop in later books.
That being said, I expected most of what came and that which I didn't guess, wasn't too surprising. Still it was still a pleasurable read and I will be back for more.
enjoyed the main and sub plots--adds reality to narrative. Like the ongoing development of the characters but can be read as a stand alone.
I'm really really mad at the way the pointless love triangle was handled and resolved. extremely disappointing. Like, horrible letdown, so I take away a star for the needless multi-book plotline with the let-down and rushed resolution. This plotline always made me mad and its conclusion basically had me fuming ... but the REST of the book, like the rest of the series, was utterly phenomenal.
Unlike other beloved mystery authors who have done personal storylines for characters that made me angry, the uttet distaste for that angle doesn't make me hate the book or even dislike it. It didn't detract from the plot, and Deaver still shows no sign of losing his edge, also unlike other beloved mystery series of mine.
Unlike other beloved mystery authors who have done personal storylines for characters that made me angry, the uttet distaste for that angle doesn't make me hate the book or even dislike it. It didn't detract from the plot, and Deaver still shows no sign of losing his edge, also unlike other beloved mystery series of mine.
The feminist line described here went something like, I was thrilled to hear my daughter say that she was not a feminist, she was an equalist. This line was as dumb as it was gratuitous. And this book is full of gratuitous, judgmental details like that. Then there's the twisted lascivious monster villain, and we get plenty of his charming point of view. So far, there's been a lot of gratuitous, judgmental eating, boring, pointless descriptions of why her highness the body reader is better than everyone else in the entire world, other characters saying things that only exist so her highness can disagree in a kind of namby-pamby, man-writing-as-a-woman way, and having been a weenie, she can then glory in feelings of self-righteousness. There was a fake fire so far, and a really implausible "human stampede" followed by a similarly implausible "mob scene." Nothing compelling. Nothing clever. Just a lot of blather and kowtowing to authoritarian, conservative societal norms.
I read this book because i am fascinated by body language. There is very little about body language in this novel that you wouldn't find in a Highlights for kids magazine on the topic. The characters are so tepid that I hope they all die. Even the villain is cliche and boring. Maybe it gets better, but I doubt it will. I will update this review when (if) I finish this so-far utterly dreadful book.
I read this book because i am fascinated by body language. There is very little about body language in this novel that you wouldn't find in a Highlights for kids magazine on the topic. The characters are so tepid that I hope they all die. Even the villain is cliche and boring. Maybe it gets better, but I doubt it will. I will update this review when (if) I finish this so-far utterly dreadful book.
I always enjoy Deaver's books -- they're great airplane reads -- but this one was somehow weird. It had a whole lot of stuff that felt like product placement, a weird swipe against feminism -- the story was interesting enough, but the "I will never have a major character turn out to be evil" thing that Deaver has held to has stopped being an effective piece of restraint and started to make everything more predictable. What a shock! It was again this secondary character you never liked! And in this kind of thriller, you're expecting something more interesting in plotting.
I really like the Kathryn Dance books and this one is no exception. I think the characters are all realistic, none of them are flawless and the plot lines are plausible.