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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
8 out of 10 stars.
Great story with a few twists that I didn't see coming. Best Bosch story yet.
Great story with a few twists that I didn't see coming. Best Bosch story yet.
Listening to the audiobook of this was an altogether miserable experience, like being trapped in a small room for 12 hours with a bunch of cops who can't stop arguing.
I thought the audio format might make Connelly's wooden prose more tolerable, but actually it was the opposite. Every stilted phrase was enunciated to perfection by the gravelly-voiced actor. Connelly's bizarre aversion to using contractions made the dialogue feel particularly unnatural.
The story also felt slow and interminable: Bosch driving from one office to another, having one procedural conversation after the next. Occasionally someone you didn't really care about/actively despised dies. Edgar pops up every now and then to make a misogynistic joke, and Rider earns Bosch's respect through her ability to "take it."
The Lincoln Lawyer was pretty enjoyable, but I'm taking a hard pass on the rest of the Bosch series.
I thought the audio format might make Connelly's wooden prose more tolerable, but actually it was the opposite. Every stilted phrase was enunciated to perfection by the gravelly-voiced actor. Connelly's bizarre aversion to using contractions made the dialogue feel particularly unnatural.
The story also felt slow and interminable: Bosch driving from one office to another, having one procedural conversation after the next. Occasionally someone you didn't really care about/actively despised dies. Edgar pops up every now and then to make a misogynistic joke, and Rider earns Bosch's respect through her ability to "take it."
The Lincoln Lawyer was pretty enjoyable, but I'm taking a hard pass on the rest of the Bosch series.
Angels Flight is a superbly written police procedural mystery. Main character Harry Bosch continues to become more likeable as Connelly delivered the books in the series. Connelly weaves lots of twists while delivering a great story. This series just gets better and better.
This book reads almost like it was published in the year 2020. Information technologies sure have advanced fast, but excuses for looting stayed the same.
A well-developed story with unexpected turns of events and ugly politics, but without all the sugar-coating.
A well-developed story with unexpected turns of events and ugly politics, but without all the sugar-coating.
I love Harry Bosch. I love how he thinks and how he reacts. These books just keeping better.
I’ve said this before and I’ll probably keep saying it every time I read a Michael Connelly book: There is no such thing as a bad Michael Connelly book.
Certainly some are better than others and some of them are definitely at the top of his game but even the poorest of them is far richer than the dull paint-by-numbers ‘thrillers’ of his counterparts.
Angel’s Flight starts when Bosch is called in to investigate the murder of a local lawyer who has made a name for himself investigating corruption in the police department. Bosch’s suspicious nature kicks in almost right away as he senses that not only is he being thrust into a political hot bed that could breed riots in the streets but he’s also being set up to take the fall for it.
He reacts in typical Bosch fashion which is to bulldog his way through, working round the clock to discover the truth and in the process he unravels much more than he counted on and uncovers mysteries that everybody thought had been solved.
Bosch is a fascinating character, mostly because he can be wrong, and frequently is. What makes him so compelling is that, even though I know he leaps to conclusions, puts things together too early and has too many pages left to have figured it out already, he is so certain and convincing that I fall for it every time.
In the midst of trying to solve the crime of the decade, hold the city together and protect his fellow officers in the pursuit of truth at all costs (which might be a conflicting set of agenda) he is also struggling to keep his marriage together and to ride the heightened racial tension in the LAPD in the years following the Rodney King beatings.
Michael Connelly juggles all of those things into a nice ring around the readers head, snatching them out here and there to bring attention to them.
Angel’s Flight is a Michael Connelly book — which should be endorsement enough — but it is also a Harry Bosch book which is the best of what Michael Connelly writes. Jump in anywhere, you won’t be able to sit down until you finish.
Certainly some are better than others and some of them are definitely at the top of his game but even the poorest of them is far richer than the dull paint-by-numbers ‘thrillers’ of his counterparts.
Angel’s Flight starts when Bosch is called in to investigate the murder of a local lawyer who has made a name for himself investigating corruption in the police department. Bosch’s suspicious nature kicks in almost right away as he senses that not only is he being thrust into a political hot bed that could breed riots in the streets but he’s also being set up to take the fall for it.
He reacts in typical Bosch fashion which is to bulldog his way through, working round the clock to discover the truth and in the process he unravels much more than he counted on and uncovers mysteries that everybody thought had been solved.
Bosch is a fascinating character, mostly because he can be wrong, and frequently is. What makes him so compelling is that, even though I know he leaps to conclusions, puts things together too early and has too many pages left to have figured it out already, he is so certain and convincing that I fall for it every time.
In the midst of trying to solve the crime of the decade, hold the city together and protect his fellow officers in the pursuit of truth at all costs (which might be a conflicting set of agenda) he is also struggling to keep his marriage together and to ride the heightened racial tension in the LAPD in the years following the Rodney King beatings.
Michael Connelly juggles all of those things into a nice ring around the readers head, snatching them out here and there to bring attention to them.
Angel’s Flight is a Michael Connelly book — which should be endorsement enough — but it is also a Harry Bosch book which is the best of what Michael Connelly writes. Jump in anywhere, you won’t be able to sit down until you finish.
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-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
Pushing past his troubles at home, Harry Bosch immerses himself in the homicide investigation of a divisive race-baiting attorney. It's a good read but the subject matter just gets so gruesome, I want to skim page after page. I'm hoping Harry's next exploit is kinder and gentler.
I'm enjoying this series more and more with every book. This one had me pretty anxious and it was very tempting to look at the back of the book to see who the bad guy was!