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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
Listened to the 3 CD abridged version of this 500 page+ novel. Maybe a lot lost in the abridging, but the over the top tough and violence is more amusing than real. I am sure it is fun and easy for him to write, but does not hold the same excellent socio-economic insights that Lehane's other books, such as Mystic River, hold. But, they may have been cut out in this abridged version. Nice twists and turns, not always believable. Enjoyable, and picked up a copy of the first Lehane/Kenzie/Gennaro novel half way through listening to this - so it did grab me. A lot of the violence is described after the fact, and there is a brightness and intelligence to this I don't find on in other Once-A-Year Best Seller Authors, so I'd say give it a go......
The darkest book on the series- fast paced and enjoyable. Would have liked more Patrick and Angie interaction, but still really good.
Bubba!! He’s the literal best.
[major TW tho, so check ‘em]
[major TW tho, so check ‘em]
As Lehane's stories progress, I am certain, positive, that things will get too vivid for me, but he always seems to stop just shy of where I would leap out of control. He has a powerful way of describing evil and depravity, tempered with justice and conviction.
Gone, Baby, Gone, was nearly perfect. Lehane has continued the Gennaro-Kenzie series and has to manufacture things to constantly get them together or send them their dysfunctional separate ways--this time it is the suicide of a former stalking victim that propels them to investigate a sadistic predator in their claustrophobic Southie neighborhood. The level of eeeevil is turned up implausibly to eleven, but at least there isn't a lair with a thousand little candles.
Great mystery - lots of twists - I stayed up late to finish. I especially love the characters.
As usual, this one was a bit darker than what I typically choose to read, but also as usual, the journeys of the main characters were believable and made me care.
I've never read a Lehane I didn't love! This one is no exception. Fast paced, great characters. Lehane knocks it out of the park (even if it IS Fenway...LOL) again!! 5Stars!
hard boiled, gritty, and heart pounding. i really like this series.
I can't decide if I didn't like this that much because I'm not a huge fan of mystery and suspense, or if it's because I started reading the Patrick Kenzie, PI, series at book #5. Oooooor maybe it's because this book just wasn't that good.
The storyline, although an intriguing idea from the synopsis, was really just OK. Compared to Shutter Island, the only other Dennis Lehane book I've ever read, this storyline was outright silly. I mean, a seasoned PI becomes obsessed with avenging the death of a woman he's met only once and briefly at that? Maybe it's my lack of knowledge of the Kenzie character, but that's just not believable to me. Then I was taken on a roller coaster of false leads and wrongful speculations until I lost interest in any of the details and stopped paying attention to any side characters, settings, backstory and pretty much everything other than the dialogue. And I honestly don't feel I lost anything from skipping over about 75% of the descriptive writing and focusing only on the dialogue. To me, that's a sign of a poorly written book.
The reasons for the 3 stars are few, but they still exist. In the end, this was a pretty good PI novel. Silly as it was, it's sometimes fun to read junky books and I'm no snob who only reads literary masterpieces. (In fact, I hardly ever read literary masterpieces.) I cared enough to read through to the end to find out how the story resolved and I wasn't disappointed in the ending. I also enjoyed the romance aspect between Patrick and Angie. At the end of the day, if I were offered the opportunity to read some of the other books in the Patrick Kenzie series, I'd probably give them a try.
The storyline, although an intriguing idea from the synopsis, was really just OK. Compared to Shutter Island, the only other Dennis Lehane book I've ever read, this storyline was outright silly. I mean, a seasoned PI becomes obsessed with avenging the death of a woman he's met only once and briefly at that? Maybe it's my lack of knowledge of the Kenzie character, but that's just not believable to me. Then I was taken on a roller coaster of false leads and wrongful speculations until I lost interest in any of the details and stopped paying attention to any side characters, settings, backstory and pretty much everything other than the dialogue. And I honestly don't feel I lost anything from skipping over about 75% of the descriptive writing and focusing only on the dialogue. To me, that's a sign of a poorly written book.
The reasons for the 3 stars are few, but they still exist. In the end, this was a pretty good PI novel. Silly as it was, it's sometimes fun to read junky books and I'm no snob who only reads literary masterpieces. (In fact, I hardly ever read literary masterpieces.) I cared enough to read through to the end to find out how the story resolved and I wasn't disappointed in the ending. I also enjoyed the romance aspect between Patrick and Angie. At the end of the day, if I were offered the opportunity to read some of the other books in the Patrick Kenzie series, I'd probably give them a try.