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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
You put Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones together? I'm all in! Plus appearances by Mouse and Bad Boy Brawly Brown? Shoooooooooooot
I was looking at the slender, four-eyed murder suspect, trying not to let my anger get the better of me. I wanted to ask if what they taught him in college was to hate himself or did he just get that way on his own?
Fearless came back with my water glass and the anger seeped away.
[...]
I never liked talking to cops I didn’t know; I didn’t like talking to most cops I was acquainted with. It was the duty of the police to keep men like me down and out, so scared that we were liable to make a slip, then to clap us in chains and lock us away from love, laughter, and light.
Fearless came back with my water glass and the anger seeped away.
[...]
I never liked talking to cops I didn’t know; I didn’t like talking to most cops I was acquainted with. It was the duty of the police to keep men like me down and out, so scared that we were liable to make a slip, then to clap us in chains and lock us away from love, laughter, and light.
mysterious
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had not previously read an Easy Rawlins book, I didn't have a problem with it though with this book. Easy's character is easy to like and I've always wanted to try him out so I jumped in.
Easy is about to marry the woman that is his current love. Ms. Bonnie, he is all ready to head over to her house when she gets back to town and get down on his knee. Life seems to never work out like Easy wants though.
He ends up getting a visit from his old time 'friend' Mouse.
Mouse has a job for the private detective. He needs him to clear a black young man for a murder of two white men for a pretty shady guy named Charcoal Joe. The young man is smart and is really innocent but being black makes it easier for the murder cases to be closed.
Easy takes on the case and knows he is probably setting himself up for trouble but he has to pay the bills.
This book could have been sooooo much better. I think I will go back and read some of the earlier Easy Rawlins books because I can see how entertaining he can be. With this book though? About midway of the book so many different and new characters were getting added that eventually I lost interest in even seeing how it all played out. It was just too much. I did finish it but I really just did not care. I had no clue how to keep up with which character was which.
Quit giving me that look Easy.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
Easy is about to marry the woman that is his current love. Ms. Bonnie, he is all ready to head over to her house when she gets back to town and get down on his knee. Life seems to never work out like Easy wants though.
He ends up getting a visit from his old time 'friend' Mouse.
Mouse has a job for the private detective. He needs him to clear a black young man for a murder of two white men for a pretty shady guy named Charcoal Joe. The young man is smart and is really innocent but being black makes it easier for the murder cases to be closed.
Easy takes on the case and knows he is probably setting himself up for trouble but he has to pay the bills.
This book could have been sooooo much better. I think I will go back and read some of the earlier Easy Rawlins books because I can see how entertaining he can be. With this book though? About midway of the book so many different and new characters were getting added that eventually I lost interest in even seeing how it all played out. It was just too much. I did finish it but I really just did not care. I had no clue how to keep up with which character was which.
Quit giving me that look Easy.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
I do get drawn in by these Easy Rawlins tales. I like the milieu and the pace, and the portrayal of time and place. But I feel played as information is withheld and then revealed. It may be classic thriller technique and it is cleverly done, but it still feels mechanical, slick, formulaic. Highly intelligent but unreal.
Most thriller writers don't engage me at all. But Mosley does.
Most thriller writers don't engage me at all. But Mosley does.
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I thought this was a very enjoyable listen. Not a straightforward mystery in any sense and more like almost superhero in terms of things going his way, but still a good tale. The vocabulary is amazing and once or twice has to look up a word or two or heard words that my father had used, so that was fun intellectually. The every woman falls for him part gets a little old, but not too over the top and he is not untouchable. So a great listen, but not amazing from this woman's point of view.
It's a great read. The narrative voice is powerful and carries you along through one heck of a story. It's not perfect, but that's because nothing is. This one is close enough.
Always a good time with Mosley and Easy Rawlins! Somehow Mosley maintains Easy’s moral compass while balancing his humanity and range of emotions as he faces addition betrayals and intrigues in trying to help those closest to him and the vulnerable in his community. Easy may not be intended to be a hero, but he is certainly a role model of living in your integrity.