150 reviews for:

The Collectors

David Baldacci

3.84 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Ridiculous. I was drawn in by the Library of Congress connection, but not even that could salvage it for me. I've read one other book of his and I can honestly say I think I'm done. Melodramatic; over-stereotyped characters; relationships between characters feel like they were written by Aaron Spelling. Ugh.
On second thought, if this was meant to be a parody of the thriller genre, then kudos.
mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

SO SO SO SO SO WONDERFUL.

Clearly my most favorite book by far. The first book in the series was very good but it had a lot of characters and it was hard to keep track. This time I started taking notes of each new character (which there were 16) and it made it easier to follow along. Pretty soon I didn't need my cheat sheet. The plot was so compelling; there were many times during the week where I watching itching to read it! I asked people to read to me in the car and at night so that I could continue with the story even when I was unable to read. I recommend this book become a movie, ASAP.

It took awhile to get into this one and I had to check a few times to be sure I was reading the Camel Club book 2! Once I got all the parts connected, it was a great read!!

I am really enjoying the cast of characters in this series.
adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is the second book in his Camel Club series, and I found it more interesting than that first one! I wondered about the two distinct threads which involved a scam artist and the Library of Congress, but the author merged them together in an interesting manner and resolved the seemingly divergent threads!

This is the second book in his Camel Club series, and I found it more interesting than that first one! I wondered about the two distinct threads which involved a scam artist and the Library of Congress, but the author merged them together in an interesting manner and resolved the seemingly divergent threads!