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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It feels like I've been listening to the introduction of the book for three hours. Just setting and characters getting introduced. Even though Jimmy's daughter is already dead at this point, it still feels like the book hasn't started.
Lehane has a a beautiful writing style with wonderful metaphors.
Lehane has a a beautiful writing style with wonderful metaphors.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book wasn't the most mind-blowingly original who-dun-it plot ever, but it was very enjoyable. Lehane is clearly a talented writer and has a way of constructing sentences and paragraphs that are fun to read and leave you thinking, "I never would have described a street, or a house, or a neighborhood in quite that way." I'm surprised I haven't really heard of this author before. I've heard of the movies based on several of his books, but did not know they were books. I watched the movie, Mystic River, tonight, which was critically acclaimed when it was released, and, as usual, the book was much better.
Every Saturday, back in the seventies, two men who live outside of Boston get together for drinks: Sean’s father, foreman of a chocolate factory who hosts up on the Point, and Jimmy’s father, a truck loader who lives down in the flats. The boy’s tight bond is challenged when two kidnappers take the boy’s tag along friend Dave. The forces of economic differences, time, and violence shape their adulthood, the material of the rest of the book.