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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
Very clever, was expecting a twist but didn't get the right culprit! Interesting about big cats and safari.
Die Again?
The title had me stumped and intrigued and the book delivered the answers. I liked the back and forth between the two countries and between the characters. Loved the big cats.
The title had me stumped and intrigued and the book delivered the answers. I liked the back and forth between the two countries and between the characters. Loved the big cats.
Jane Rizzoli, Boston Detective investigates the death of a big game hunter and follows the clues to South Africa where you learns of an unsolved mystery of a deadly safari six years earlier with only one survivor.
3.5 stars.
Overall unremarkable, in spite of the promising premise.
Overall unremarkable, in spite of the promising premise.
Maybe its because it has been a while since I read these books, but while it was a good mystery I didn't find it to be anything special, thus the middle of the road three stars.
Rizzoli and Isles are back, this time trying to catch the killer of a taxidermist, strung up and gutted much like a hunter would kill his prey. When they find more deaths of a similar nature, Rizzoli follows the trail to Africa, where one woman may be the key to find the killer.
This like many of the other books was a quick read for me, and I really enjoy that Gerritsen mixes in legends and myths to create a great story, but I had solved it early on, and parts of it were predictable in that it is repeated in many of her books. Sometimes I wanted to shake the characters because they were missing details that were vital.
The characters are really well developed as in previous novels, and I did enjoy how the story was gradually revealed, just enough to keep me turning pages.
All in all a great read if you love murder mysteries, but nothing groundbreaking.
Rizzoli and Isles are back, this time trying to catch the killer of a taxidermist, strung up and gutted much like a hunter would kill his prey. When they find more deaths of a similar nature, Rizzoli follows the trail to Africa, where one woman may be the key to find the killer.
This like many of the other books was a quick read for me, and I really enjoy that Gerritsen mixes in legends and myths to create a great story, but I had solved it early on, and parts of it were predictable in that it is repeated in many of her books. Sometimes I wanted to shake the characters because they were missing details that were vital.
The characters are really well developed as in previous novels, and I did enjoy how the story was gradually revealed, just enough to keep me turning pages.
All in all a great read if you love murder mysteries, but nothing groundbreaking.
I finished this book in like a day + five hours. How is that even possible? I got that feeling that only Tess could give me.
I've read so many reviews on this book, having been a lover of the previous Rizzoli and Isles novels, I wanted to make sure that this addition to the series would live up to my expectations. The reviews I've read kind of put me off, hence why I'm reading this 6 months AFTER it released.
I read a lot of "predictable" and "boring" comments & I just don't see HOW ! How could you predict that what happened happened? COME ON THERES NO WAY POSSIBLE FICJEJXJWKX The killer was like some super random character & I had an idea of who it could be & I was right and wrong at the same time because of, obviously, what transpired in the last 50 pages of the book. But how could it be predictable? I have no idea. I read by the first 40 pages people could tell who it was.... But the characters were barely introduced by then....
The way Tess writes really just pulls you in & I absolutely adored the way the story was broken between the Bush six years ago & current day Boston. It's like each new chapter would make me want to get back to the Bush chapters to see what happened there to tie in to the case. My mind was racing the book.
Also, so many comments about the show not being like the book - aye. It's a comedy, it's funny. TNT took some awesome female hardcore characters and picked qualities about them and then made the show all about an extreme exaggeration of those qualities. Maura is the perfect little smarty pants who makes no assumptions & Jane is a tough, sarcastic tom boy. You can say they aren't the same characters because they aren't. They're just BASED on the book characters. That said, I truly enjoy the show SO SO SO SO SO much. I'm a mystery novel and crime show junkie, and Rizzoli and Isles just did what no show had done before. They mixed the crime genre with the comedy genre. Just don't knock it only because its not like the books. ( if it was we'd only have 11 episodes, just sayin')
Anyway. UGH. This book was just so gooooooood.
I'm team Korsak ☺️
WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING HOW CAN I WAIT ?!
I've read so many reviews on this book, having been a lover of the previous Rizzoli and Isles novels, I wanted to make sure that this addition to the series would live up to my expectations. The reviews I've read kind of put me off, hence why I'm reading this 6 months AFTER it released.
I read a lot of "predictable" and "boring" comments & I just don't see HOW ! How could you predict that what happened happened? COME ON THERES NO WAY POSSIBLE FICJEJXJWKX The killer was like some super random character & I had an idea of who it could be & I was right and wrong at the same time because of, obviously, what transpired in the last 50 pages of the book. But how could it be predictable? I have no idea. I read by the first 40 pages people could tell who it was.... But the characters were barely introduced by then....
The way Tess writes really just pulls you in & I absolutely adored the way the story was broken between the Bush six years ago & current day Boston. It's like each new chapter would make me want to get back to the Bush chapters to see what happened there to tie in to the case. My mind was racing the book.
Also, so many comments about the show not being like the book - aye. It's a comedy, it's funny. TNT took some awesome female hardcore characters and picked qualities about them and then made the show all about an extreme exaggeration of those qualities. Maura is the perfect little smarty pants who makes no assumptions & Jane is a tough, sarcastic tom boy. You can say they aren't the same characters because they aren't. They're just BASED on the book characters. That said, I truly enjoy the show SO SO SO SO SO much. I'm a mystery novel and crime show junkie, and Rizzoli and Isles just did what no show had done before. They mixed the crime genre with the comedy genre. Just don't knock it only because its not like the books. ( if it was we'd only have 11 episodes, just sayin')
Anyway. UGH. This book was just so gooooooood.
I'm team Korsak ☺️
WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING HOW CAN I WAIT ?!
The Rizzoli & Isles in the books, though quite different from the characters in the TV series, are masterfully draw and compelling. This adventure that spans decades as well as continents has surprising twists and turns. Again, a well researched thriller with interesting historical and scientific trivia to keep the nerd brain engaged while still providing enough tense action to keep the adrenalin fueled compulsive mystery reader up late. Great ride!
As a long time fan of Rizzoli and Isles, I enjoy the books that Tess Gerritsen writes using them as the characters. Not quite true to the TV series, but the interactions are essentially the same between the main characters. In this book they try to determine who killed a taxidermist and found correlations with other murders. The story did jump back and forth between the present-day investigation and the events of the back woods trip a group took to Botswana, of which all but one person perished. In the end everything was surprisingly tied up, and the links established.
This was another really good book in this series. I think I have one left till I'm caught up which makes me a bit sad. I love this series and I hope we get more Rizzoli and Isles in the future.