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A review by billymac1962
Far From True by Linwood Barclay
3.0
I went through a lot of ups and downs while reading this one, the second in the Promise Falls trilogy.
I didn't find it near as gripping or interesting as Broken Promise, but I've got to hand it to Linwood Barclay. There are a lot of authors out there who will confuse the heck out of me when their plots get complex. I've always blamed myself. But, having read some reviews here that Barclay had lost some people with the complexity (mostly due to the number of characters in play), I am impressed with how his plotlines were laid out in a way that I actually found easy to follow.
Somehow he just clicks with me, and I can burn through his novels in record time. It also helps that most of his writing is dialogue.
Alas, though. I was getting tired of this one once I hit the 70% mark or so. But I kept going as the end was near, and....BAM! It abruptly ended in a cliffhanger.
Crap. So much for a payoff.
I'm still very curious how he's going to wrap all this up, and the answer to twenty-three. But as I type this, I'm not looking forward to another 400 pages to get there. I'm very sorry to say that I found the writing in this one to be over-simplistic at times, and David associating himself with Findlay didn't seem to ring true at all.
We'll see after I've read a few more books if I continue with the third book...I may just cheat and find something spoilery to save the time.
I'm giving this 3 stars, and I'm quite surprised that out of the three books, this is the one that Publishers Weekly gave a starred review for.
Didn't quite do it for me, but it was still ok.
I didn't find it near as gripping or interesting as Broken Promise, but I've got to hand it to Linwood Barclay. There are a lot of authors out there who will confuse the heck out of me when their plots get complex. I've always blamed myself. But, having read some reviews here that Barclay had lost some people with the complexity (mostly due to the number of characters in play), I am impressed with how his plotlines were laid out in a way that I actually found easy to follow.
Somehow he just clicks with me, and I can burn through his novels in record time. It also helps that most of his writing is dialogue.
Alas, though. I was getting tired of this one once I hit the 70% mark or so. But I kept going as the end was near, and....BAM! It abruptly ended in a cliffhanger.
Crap. So much for a payoff.
I'm still very curious how he's going to wrap all this up, and the answer to twenty-three. But as I type this, I'm not looking forward to another 400 pages to get there. I'm very sorry to say that I found the writing in this one to be over-simplistic at times, and David associating himself with Findlay didn't seem to ring true at all.
We'll see after I've read a few more books if I continue with the third book...I may just cheat and find something spoilery to save the time.
I'm giving this 3 stars, and I'm quite surprised that out of the three books, this is the one that Publishers Weekly gave a starred review for.
Didn't quite do it for me, but it was still ok.