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This is a follow up to The Poet which I read a while ago. I remember really liking The Poet but didn't read this book immediately after because The Poet did not feature Harry Bosch and I hadn't gotten that far with the Bosch books. So I spent some of the book trying to remember things that happened in the first book.

Barring my memory problem, I thought it was a fairly good story but not nearly as good as the first book. It just didn't hold my interest as well and that may not have been the case had I read the two books together and not years apart. I recall immediately reading the other book that featured the main character in The Poet and hoping Connelly wrote more books with this character but I don't think he has yet.

tjmcq's review against another edition

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3.0

Good book. Easy to read. Page turner at times. B+

jessmanners's review against another edition

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2.0

I don’t know…just not that compelling! I’m okay in theory with mysteries that care more about the why/how than the who, but this seemed to lay all three out early on, so…it was just readers (listeners) waiting for Bosch to (inevitably) catch the guy…? Admittedly, this is yet another sequel I’ve accidentally consumed without having read the first, BUT, Connelly is sometimes cagey about characters if he wants to avoid spoilers for earlier books,* and he seemed totally fine with spelling out all the twists and turns of The Poet, so I don’t feel like I cheated too badly with my out-of-order reading…
Oh well. Onto the next!
*i have to say, I do enjoy his penchant for blurring worlds…I like that the characters keep referring to the (actual) Clint Eastwood movie based on them…and the griping about the changes in the Hollywood version was kinda funny. Is he friends with Dean Koontz? The choice of shout out there felt like an inside joke, too…

muddypuddle's review against another edition

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3.0

I read this without reading The Poet first, but have read every other Harry Bosch, in order. I could figure out what was going on with this "past case" very quickly, but will admit that it would have been nice to have read The Poet first, thus having all the background. I love the character of Harry Bosch. I've loved every one of the books so far, but this one was a little (tiny, tiny) bit disappointing --- and I'm not sure why. Perhaps I've read the previous books and listened to this one, which made it different? It brings together THREE different books, including Terry McCaleb and bounces back and forth between points-of-view, not just Harry's?

bibliobethreads's review against another edition

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Quite a good follow up to the poet which was one of my favourites but would have liked a bit more from his point of view it would have made it a bit more exciting. Not bad though!

syren1532's review against another edition

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4.0

The serial killer known as The Poet is back. Agent Rachel Walling has been summoned from South Dakota to Nevada as he's left a message for her and some bodies have been discovered. Harry Bosch has retired from LAPD and is working as a PI when he's not visiting his young daughter in Las Vegas. A friend's widow has contacted him as she wants him to investigate her husband's death - it's been classed as natural causes but some toxicology results have shown some anomalies. Soon Rachel and Harry cross paths and it seems they are both on the trail of the same person. Another excellent read from Michael Connelly - love how he's linked characters and stories from his other books to create this story - really enjoyed it.

genizah's review against another edition

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2.0

Ugh, the stupid Poet. And how can Connolly be so bad at writing romantic chemistry? It boggles the mind.

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