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A review by spatterson12
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
3.0
I started this one in May and made it about 70 pages before I got distracted with some other book friends.
Once I picked it back up in August, I realized there was A LOT happening. Maybe way too much that it was hard to keep my attention. I was also focused on a lot of projects in my personal life while reading, so that could’ve played a heavy role in that as well.
Almost every single character the lead encountered died. Like how did that not raise more red flags than anything, especially when he was the “good guy”? I also would’ve preferred more time on the character and story development involving the missing woman and the history behind her sister’s case.
I believe this was a debut, so I can see where it probably felt more exciting to try to push at least five different storylines together and make them all intersect, but I think it would’ve been cleaner to focus on the murder of the detective’s family and the stories associated with the missing woman.
The Louisiana content didn’t feel the most needed to me or could’ve been saved for a sequel (I know this is the first of a much bigger series that has new releases for like two decades, but like in the moment when it was drafted it could’ve been spread across more books).
I would be willing to give another book or two in the series a shot since they’ve expanded into double digits.
Once I picked it back up in August, I realized there was A LOT happening. Maybe way too much that it was hard to keep my attention. I was also focused on a lot of projects in my personal life while reading, so that could’ve played a heavy role in that as well.
Almost every single character the lead encountered died. Like how did that not raise more red flags than anything, especially when he was the “good guy”? I also would’ve preferred more time on the character and story development involving the missing woman and the history behind her sister’s case.
I believe this was a debut, so I can see where it probably felt more exciting to try to push at least five different storylines together and make them all intersect, but I think it would’ve been cleaner to focus on the murder of the detective’s family and the stories associated with the missing woman.
The Louisiana content didn’t feel the most needed to me or could’ve been saved for a sequel (I know this is the first of a much bigger series that has new releases for like two decades, but like in the moment when it was drafted it could’ve been spread across more books).
I would be willing to give another book or two in the series a shot since they’ve expanded into double digits.