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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
2 stars. My advice, just stick with Red Dragon & The Silence of the Lambs. The books after those are not worth the time. This one was the worst. Just incredibly boring and I feel like Harris lost sight of what made Hannibal such an interesting character to begin with. I get what he was trying to do but the execution wasn't done well. I wanted so much more from a Hannibal Lecter origin story but this was not it.
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
dark
emotional
medium-paced
The hardest to read of all four only because it's Lecter's origin story so it's WWIl based. I still quite enjoyed it but it's not a thriller in the same sense of the other three in the series. It's more historical fiction in my opinion!
Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
-Silence of the Lambs
The problem with this book isn't that it's badly written or that it's boring but the idea of the book itself, telling Hannibal Lecter's origin story. Much like Wolverine: Origin (and the film it inspired), Hannibal Rising tells a story that doesn't need to be told as the mystery of where this person came from and how they became what they are was part of the appeal. This novel makes the mistake of pushing Hannibal into a full on hero as opposed to the antagonist he was in the last three books. Hannibal spends most of the novel hunting the Nazis who ate his little sister in post WW II Europe. The story does a serviceable job of explaining how a kid who experienced such horrors at that young an age could become a monster but when that kid is specifically made to be Hannibal Lecter the whole thing becomes a bit blasé. Also Lecter has an attraction towards his Aunt/Step Mother in this book which she apparent reciprocates because Lecter kind of looks like her dead husband. Ewwww.
-Silence of the Lambs
The problem with this book isn't that it's badly written or that it's boring but the idea of the book itself, telling Hannibal Lecter's origin story. Much like Wolverine: Origin (and the film it inspired), Hannibal Rising tells a story that doesn't need to be told as the mystery of where this person came from and how they became what they are was part of the appeal. This novel makes the mistake of pushing Hannibal into a full on hero as opposed to the antagonist he was in the last three books. Hannibal spends most of the novel hunting the Nazis who ate his little sister in post WW II Europe. The story does a serviceable job of explaining how a kid who experienced such horrors at that young an age could become a monster but when that kid is specifically made to be Hannibal Lecter the whole thing becomes a bit blasé. Also Lecter has an attraction towards his Aunt/Step Mother in this book which she apparent reciprocates because Lecter kind of looks like her dead husband. Ewwww.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
This was a solid revenge thriller, but I found it a disservice to the story to force the Hannibal Lecter connection.