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bryce_is_a_librarian 's review for:
Voodoo River
by Robert Crais
Sometimes as readers we get in our own way.
Brothers and Sisters I confess that when I was first introduced to Robert Crais, I stuck up my nose. No other word for it ladies and gentlemen I was a snob. At the time I was heavily into the likes of Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos and Richard Price (for that matter I still am). Crime fiction as weighty dark night of the soul stuff. Robert Crais was too pulpy, too buoyant, too frivolous. Pah!
But then somewhere in the second book I was hit by a revelation. I knew how the story would end...
You see though both Cole and Pike are still alive and kicking, all men must die and someday both will end back on the great wheel of karma where after kicking around for a hundred years or so they will be reborn.
As Spike Spiegel and Jet Black respectively.
I'm not joking.
That shit is canon.
Though I find it extremely doubtful that Crais has ever seen Cowboy Bebop (and obviously his series predates that one) I found the character dynamic so delightfully similar that once the thought struck me I couldn't get rid of it. And then I was hooked. The series has the same fast action, eccentricity, pulp thrills, dry humor, likable characters and occasional melancholy as Bebop. Their fast paced, well written and a ton of fun. Voodoo River is in the top tier.
I still prefer my crime fiction dark and operatic, but man one loses a taste for such exquisite popcorn at one's own peril.
Brothers and Sisters I confess that when I was first introduced to Robert Crais, I stuck up my nose. No other word for it ladies and gentlemen I was a snob. At the time I was heavily into the likes of Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos and Richard Price (for that matter I still am). Crime fiction as weighty dark night of the soul stuff. Robert Crais was too pulpy, too buoyant, too frivolous. Pah!
But then somewhere in the second book I was hit by a revelation. I knew how the story would end...
You see though both Cole and Pike are still alive and kicking, all men must die and someday both will end back on the great wheel of karma where after kicking around for a hundred years or so they will be reborn.
As Spike Spiegel and Jet Black respectively.
I'm not joking.
That shit is canon.
Though I find it extremely doubtful that Crais has ever seen Cowboy Bebop (and obviously his series predates that one) I found the character dynamic so delightfully similar that once the thought struck me I couldn't get rid of it. And then I was hooked. The series has the same fast action, eccentricity, pulp thrills, dry humor, likable characters and occasional melancholy as Bebop. Their fast paced, well written and a ton of fun. Voodoo River is in the top tier.
I still prefer my crime fiction dark and operatic, but man one loses a taste for such exquisite popcorn at one's own peril.