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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was okay. I wouldn’t say the best of the Lincoln Rhyme novels, but it was entertaining enough.
I think this one had one twist too many. But still fun to read if you like this strict police procedural genre fiction.
This author has got one psychotic imagination - so many twists and turns.
My only criticism is that it all "wraps up" too easily.
My only criticism is that it all "wraps up" too easily.
Jeffery Deaver is usually a hit or miss for me. I enjoy his writing style and his plot twists, but sometimes there are too many and it ends up being ridiculous. This book is one of them. Right when you were happily settled in one great direction...SURPRISE...another plot twist. And another. And another. It got to the point that I was getting frustrated and eager to be done with this story. It felt convoluted and much too long. I found myself skimming through sentences, paragraphs, pages and eventually entire chapters. I have a few books by him left to read sitting on my bookshelf but I think I'll take a break from the author until I'm up to trying again.
I picked up this third-hand, withdrawn library book because I was having trouble getting through another novel I was attempting, and wanted something quick and distracting. The friend who gave this to me said it was "pretty good, with lots of subplots within subplots" so I figured it would be entertaining.
The first 2/3 of this book was great. I found that I could easily pick it up and put it down again, but it was interesting. The last 1/3 of the book is where all the subplots crash into each other, and it's as if the author got tired of describing what was happening and decided to tell it like it was, one after the other. It was still interesting, but much less artfully so, and I started to get tired of how complex and underdeveloped it became.
The bad guy gets away, so you know he'll reappear in the next book, which I don't think I'll be reading. By the way, this is by the guy who wrote The Bone Collector (which I watched) and the plot is a bit like the movie The Usual Suspects. I think this book would translate into a pretty good movie.
I enjoyed the sections on kinesics and the cleverness of the bad guy.
The first 2/3 of this book was great. I found that I could easily pick it up and put it down again, but it was interesting. The last 1/3 of the book is where all the subplots crash into each other, and it's as if the author got tired of describing what was happening and decided to tell it like it was, one after the other. It was still interesting, but much less artfully so, and I started to get tired of how complex and underdeveloped it became.
The bad guy gets away, so you know he'll reappear in the next book, which I don't think I'll be reading. By the way, this is by the guy who wrote The Bone Collector (which I watched) and the plot is a bit like the movie The Usual Suspects. I think this book would translate into a pretty good movie.
I enjoyed the sections on kinesics and the cleverness of the bad guy.
A solid and reliable Rhyme novel with an above-average number of twists and turns, at an increasing pace. So you get to bask in the serial killer's blinding moonlight before the story runs away from you.
I like the Lincoln Rhyme series because his character, as well as Amelia's, are so different and complex than most detective/crime novels. Adding Kathryn Dance to the story added a new dimension.
Nuova indagine per il detective tetraplegico Lyincoln Rhyme, sempre supportato dalla bella e brava Amelia Sachs. L'unica cosa che differenziava fino a questo momento Kay Scarpetta, Alex Cross e Lincoln Rhyme era che quest'ultimo, a differenza dei precedenti e di chissà quanti altri, non aveva un nemico fisso la cui unica idea in testa era quello di distruggerlo ad ogni costo, ma con questo libro si adegua al trend in voga.
Da due indagini si arriva ad una ed all'apparizione di un serial killer, diciamo poco serial e molto killer, che, sembra, dedicherà buona parte della sua esistenza alla sconfitta e conseguente dipartita sofferente del nostro eroe.
Si poteva evitare secondo me, ma forse così è più facile, anche se Deaver che ci ha da sempre abituato ad una serie di colpi di scena a raffica, forse avrà un più limitato spazio di manovra d'ora in poi.
Ogni volta che il libro sembrava aver trovato un senso, una conclusione, un epilogo, nuove cose turbavano l'equilibrio appena raggiunto e le carte in tavola sparigliavano di nuovo, a lungo andare non è più tutta questa sorpresa però, anche perchè basta dare un'occhiata alle pagine che mancano alla fine per averne la certezza.
La mia sensazione è che stavolta abbia un pochino esagerato con i colpi di scena, ma non è un brutto libro, l'indagine è carina, viene introdotto anche un nuovo personaggio che secondo me potrebbe tornare: l'esperta di cinsesica (lettura del linguaggio corporeo) Kathryn Dance, e la squadra si allarga; sembra di tornare in famiglia.
Già, ma se adesso anche i gialli ti fanno sentire a casa, dove andiamo a finire?
Da due indagini si arriva ad una ed all'apparizione di un serial killer, diciamo poco serial e molto killer, che, sembra, dedicherà buona parte della sua esistenza alla sconfitta e conseguente dipartita sofferente del nostro eroe.
Si poteva evitare secondo me, ma forse così è più facile, anche se Deaver che ci ha da sempre abituato ad una serie di colpi di scena a raffica, forse avrà un più limitato spazio di manovra d'ora in poi.
Ogni volta che il libro sembrava aver trovato un senso, una conclusione, un epilogo, nuove cose turbavano l'equilibrio appena raggiunto e le carte in tavola sparigliavano di nuovo, a lungo andare non è più tutta questa sorpresa però, anche perchè basta dare un'occhiata alle pagine che mancano alla fine per averne la certezza.
La mia sensazione è che stavolta abbia un pochino esagerato con i colpi di scena, ma non è un brutto libro, l'indagine è carina, viene introdotto anche un nuovo personaggio che secondo me potrebbe tornare: l'esperta di cinsesica (lettura del linguaggio corporeo) Kathryn Dance, e la squadra si allarga; sembra di tornare in famiglia.
Già, ma se adesso anche i gialli ti fanno sentire a casa, dove andiamo a finire?
This book fit with the rest of the Lincoln Rhyme Canon. Interesting, detailed and plenty of twists and turns. Not my favorite but enjoyable nonetheless.