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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
One of the better Kenzie & Gennaro books. Super twisted tho so please check TW if you’re not used to Lehane’s books. Although, you definitely should be if you’re on book 4 of a series.
Excellent book - just when you think it's over, it's not over. It is definitely not a 'feel good' book but certainly a page turner.
This is a book which had kept me engaged from beginning to end. This book made me a Dennis Lehane fan, the story reaches the span of human frailties, strengths and moral torment. Disturbing at times giving vivid detail accounts when the most fragile and defenseless become victims of horrific monsters, there are likable even heroic anti-heroes set in the boundary of the law which is anything but black and white with the moral compasses which have most often shades of gray. A masterful tragic tale of good intentions which lay the brick works to a road to hell.
A hard read for a parent. I don't know how this got on my to-read list, except perhaps as a "this is used as a Castle episode" thing, but it didn't turn out like the Castle episode I saw.
Not sure if I'd read him again. His protagonists lack hope. The sadness is palpable.
Not sure if I'd read him again. His protagonists lack hope. The sadness is palpable.
I tend to forget, because I read to damned many murder mysteries, just how complex are the characters that Dennis Lehane creates. As is so important to my attention span and enjoyment of the book, I like the heroes of the story and can imagine a full life surrounding them. Like other Lehane stories, it contains a fair mix of gray mixed in with the black-and-white of right and wrong. Sometimes I don't want to get too keep into the mess that is humanity, but Dennis Lehane does finally show that good and fair has as much of a place as evil, misadventure, and sorrow.
Re-read as a comfort paperback while traveling, this may well be a perfect mystery novel in terms of plot, character and moral ambiguity. Set in Lehane's series' familiar poor neighborhoods of South Boston, detectives Kenzie and Gennaro search for a missing child, only to find that the crime is not what they think, and that the law and justice are two very different things.
Really interesting characters and compelling mystery.
Dark, as always with Lehane, but such a clever, unique plot! I'll remember this story.
another great story in this series. this one is particularly graphic and gritty. i'm a big fan of the Kenzie & Gennaro series. lots of very smart writing and in this heart-thumping thriller.