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How is this the same author that created Hannibal?! This reads like the first draft of a bad writer’s first novel. Who signed off on publishing this drivel?
It really is an awful pity that Thomas Harris got stuck going back to Lecter in Hannibal and Hannibal Rising when he could have been writing more thrillers like this, scultped from soid blocks of gorgeous prose, giving us protagonists like Cari Mora, the ex-FARC child soldier hanging onto residency in the US by the skin of her teeth, caretaker of a house built for Pablo Escobar, where he hid millions in gold bullion. What a brilliant, twisted, twisty thriller it is, by turns atrociously horrible and profoundly humane, way more of a heist than the woman-in-peril suggested by the blurb, but also that to some extent.
Full review here: https://www.scifiandscary.com/cari-mora-review/
Here’s a snippet of it:
“The wind off the bay was full of ghosts tonight — young men and women and children who had lived or died in her arms….other nights the wind batted lightly at her like the memory of a kiss, of eyelashes brushing her face, sweet breath on her neck” (12).
Thirteen years. It is impossible to NOT be overly excited when one of my favorite authors of all time announces a new book after a little over a decade. I pre-ordered. I waited. It was to be set in a different world than Lecter, but that was fine. I loved Black Sunday, too. And then it was here, delivered on release day. YES!! The review that follows is my honest reaction to reading this newest from Harris: part joy, part disappointment, and a bit of bewilderment.
Here’s a snippet of it:
“The wind off the bay was full of ghosts tonight — young men and women and children who had lived or died in her arms….other nights the wind batted lightly at her like the memory of a kiss, of eyelashes brushing her face, sweet breath on her neck” (12).
Thirteen years. It is impossible to NOT be overly excited when one of my favorite authors of all time announces a new book after a little over a decade. I pre-ordered. I waited. It was to be set in a different world than Lecter, but that was fine. I loved Black Sunday, too. And then it was here, delivered on release day. YES!! The review that follows is my honest reaction to reading this newest from Harris: part joy, part disappointment, and a bit of bewilderment.