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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another super solid entry in the series. Elvis has definitely matured a lot across all these books.
Elvis and Joe team up on an odd one: teen burglars being hunted by mysterious duo. A nervous mother hires Elvis and things get complicated. Crais tells the story from multiple viewpoints, builds plenty of tension and brings his plotting skills to a fine story.
Thank God I finished when I did....I have no fingernails left. Review to follow.
Blame the pandemic — I love reading these fast-paced novels about private detective Elvis Cole and his very reliable buddy, Joe Pike. As usual, Elvis gets hired for something that seems simple and mundane — a mom has found an inexplicable expensive object in her teen son's bedroom. Turns out there have been multiple burglaries. In the homes of the very rich. And there always have to be deadly threats for tension, so — one of the burgled rich people has hired two extremely efficient killers to get his stuff back.
Elvis excels at caring about people and wanting to keep them safe. Joe Pike wants to keep Elvis safe. Stupid teens who burgle wealthy homes are doing stupid things and not helping Elvis and Joe protect them. All the ingredients come together in a delicious confection I just had to gulp down.
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Elvis excels at caring about people and wanting to keep them safe. Joe Pike wants to keep Elvis safe. Stupid teens who burgle wealthy homes are doing stupid things and not helping Elvis and Joe protect them. All the ingredients come together in a delicious confection I just had to gulp down.
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It's been a few years since I read a Cole & Pike novel. Back then I switched between Coben and Crais, both of whom have a wise-cracking PI with a dangerous sidekick, and preferred Crais' pared back style and Crais' no nonsense Pike vs. the preppy (and often mysoginistic) Win. I'm doing the same now and have an identical feeling - Crais edges it.
This novel, like the rest, is short-ish, snappy, with very limited descriptions of people and places. Often, Cole can move from one location to the next within a sentence, in a blink and you miss it scene change. The pace keeps high throughout as Cole investigates a seemingly innocous case of a kid with too much money. But someone else is also after the same kid and they're killing people to find a laptop. It's not until the very end when the plot finally unravels and we learn the who and the why. For a relatively straightforward and uncomplicated story it's oddly compelling.
This novel, like the rest, is short-ish, snappy, with very limited descriptions of people and places. Often, Cole can move from one location to the next within a sentence, in a blink and you miss it scene change. The pace keeps high throughout as Cole investigates a seemingly innocous case of a kid with too much money. But someone else is also after the same kid and they're killing people to find a laptop. It's not until the very end when the plot finally unravels and we learn the who and the why. For a relatively straightforward and uncomplicated story it's oddly compelling.
Started as a two star with just enough interest to get through the book but overall not a deep or satisfying read. I subtracted a star because of the first person narration. Not a good choice.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot