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adiamond 's review for:
The Black Box
by Michael Connelly
The writing was competent, but the characters were not fleshed out enough to draw me in. Much of the story felt like paint-by-numbers, especially 1) the overbearing, incompetent supervisor, 2) Bosch as the maverick results-by-any-means cop, and 3) Bosch as the caring dad. Much of the story is summarized "telling" as opposed to the narrator bringing the reader right into the scene. Connelly does a good job of describing how Bosch thinks and communicating what Bosch is thinking, but this book doesn't make the reader feel the angst, hope, despair, and anxiety that many of the classic crime writers make you feel.