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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ha! One of the agents is named Jennifer Whipple. A name I actually know in real life. Luckily, her scene is short so it didn't freak me out too much.
I enjoyed this book much more than some of the recent FBI Thrillers. Perhaps I'm getting used to a less-character-development-more-plotline story from Catherine Coulter. Less character development isn't a bad thing per se, except that the series started out focusing on one couple sometimes having Savich and Sherlock come in but not always. Now there's them, other recurring couples, and often a paranormal theme that all vie for attention.
In this story, a girl is leaving a party at Stanislous, the renowned music school, and interrupts a murder taking place in her bathroom. Well, it just so happens that she is the sister of an FBI agent, one who is connected to Savich.
And the story is off... twisting and winding and even including a violent gang and vast stores of drugs.
I enjoyed this book much more than some of the recent FBI Thrillers. Perhaps I'm getting used to a less-character-development-more-plotline story from Catherine Coulter. Less character development isn't a bad thing per se, except that the series started out focusing on one couple sometimes having Savich and Sherlock come in but not always. Now there's them, other recurring couples, and often a paranormal theme that all vie for attention.
In this story, a girl is leaving a party at Stanislous, the renowned music school, and interrupts a murder taking place in her bathroom. Well, it just so happens that she is the sister of an FBI agent, one who is connected to Savich.
And the story is off... twisting and winding and even including a violent gang and vast stores of drugs.
I don't get the high ratings for this book. The dialogue is lame/amateurish. I actually rolled my eyes at one point. That was when I decided my time would be wasted if I read any more.
Full of cliches, bad writing and awkward sexual observations. Murder mystery meets romance, and neither work. Not at all my cuppa! Quit reading it.
Just another Coulter FBI thriller, but still a page turner. You just love the characters of Sherlock and Savich, plus she will go back to previous towns and other cases so you can see how previous characters have aged and progressed in life. Bombshell picks up right where Back Fire left off. Agent Griffin Hammersmith is joining Savich’s special team, but takes his time getting to Washington. He stops off to see his sister who is studying music in Maestro, Virginia (the scene of a previous novel). Griffin’s sisters is known as Trouble Magnet because it followers her everywhere she goes. Now she has had her head bashed in after finding a dead body in her bath tub. The snafu is that the body has disappeared, but someone is still out for blood. This title has a double story because while Agent Griffin is in Virginia, Sherlock and Savich are in DC trying to solve the murder of a prominent political figures teenage grandson.
The story is great, but I do have complaints. The double stories get old. While the series is derived around Sherlock and Savich, it is okay if they do not play the most prominent part. I see no reason to add a second story line to increase our awareness of these beloved characters. Number two, is where did the title come from. It would make a great topic for a discussion group, but it just does not seem to stand out as part of the book. If the bombshell the beautiful woman, the story time (because if that is what bombshell represents than someone needs a different dictionary), or some great reveal that never happened.
Overall, a sound book in a much loved and read series.
The story is great, but I do have complaints. The double stories get old. While the series is derived around Sherlock and Savich, it is okay if they do not play the most prominent part. I see no reason to add a second story line to increase our awareness of these beloved characters. Number two, is where did the title come from. It would make a great topic for a discussion group, but it just does not seem to stand out as part of the book. If the bombshell the beautiful woman, the story time (because if that is what bombshell represents than someone needs a different dictionary), or some great reveal that never happened.
Overall, a sound book in a much loved and read series.
The FBI Thriller novels follow Savich and Sherlock as they solve crimes as part of the FBI. The crimes ten to be pretty gruesome, but the bad guys never win for long with this married couple on the case. Their relationship is warming as they balance doing their job with raising a family and their urge to protect one another.
In this latest installment, Bombshell, they are joined by Griffin Hammersmith, last seen in Backfire, who has been recruited by Savich to join their unit of the FBI. On his way to D.C. Hammersmith decides to stop in Maestro, Virginia to visit his sister Delsey, a music student. Before he gets there he receives a phone call telling him that his sister has been found naked and unconscious in a pool of blood that is not her own. As Hammersmith tries to protect his sister and solve the mystery of what is going on in Maestro, Savich and Sherlock are dealing with the dead body of a young man that was found displayed in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The book jumps back and forth between the stories of what is happening in Maestro and D.C., but it isn’t distracting, instead keeping to book moving along at the quick pace I’ve come to expect from Coulter’s DBI novels. Hammersmith is a nice addition to the team, his seeming ability to “see” what is going to happen is not overplayed, but an interesting twist. A fun, fast ride through two completely different worlds of crime.
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In this latest installment, Bombshell, they are joined by Griffin Hammersmith, last seen in Backfire, who has been recruited by Savich to join their unit of the FBI. On his way to D.C. Hammersmith decides to stop in Maestro, Virginia to visit his sister Delsey, a music student. Before he gets there he receives a phone call telling him that his sister has been found naked and unconscious in a pool of blood that is not her own. As Hammersmith tries to protect his sister and solve the mystery of what is going on in Maestro, Savich and Sherlock are dealing with the dead body of a young man that was found displayed in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The book jumps back and forth between the stories of what is happening in Maestro and D.C., but it isn’t distracting, instead keeping to book moving along at the quick pace I’ve come to expect from Coulter’s DBI novels. Hammersmith is a nice addition to the team, his seeming ability to “see” what is going to happen is not overplayed, but an interesting twist. A fun, fast ride through two completely different worlds of crime.
See more on my blog at www.watchingthewords.wordpress.com
This series used to be awesome. Read The Cove, The Maze (my personal favorite). They are fantastic. Now, it is just candy. You really should not eat it up, but you do and then feel guilty later.. The writing is eye rolling ridiculous, but I can't help myself. All these characters are described as hot and the commentary is always an adjective in reference to how fine and sexy these FBI/ DEA agents are. I already know when I am in a reading hump, I will pick up the next one in the series.....and gain 5 pounds.