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A review by ashleylm
The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
4.0
I'm very much enjoying this series, but I do wish (and so does his therapist!) that Bosch were less angry, hot-headed, etc. I'm sure it adds drama ... how much of a novel would we get if the hero were a nice quiet person who didn't like to trouble people? But it's so over-the-top that it's almost cartoonish, to my mind. I wouldn't want to ask him "any cream or sugar?" for fear that he'd lash out at me. I'm sure the author knows this, which makes it bearable (unlike with Patrica Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series, where the main character was Awful, but the author thought she was Terrific).
This is the novel where Bosch is on leave for being too angry and hot-headed, and decides to investigate his Mother's murder on the sly, in case I forget (it's so easy for books in series to slide into one another, and the title doesn't help. If it were "Who Killed My Mother?" I'd remember for sure).
(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)
This is the novel where Bosch is on leave for being too angry and hot-headed, and decides to investigate his Mother's murder on the sly, in case I forget (it's so easy for books in series to slide into one another, and the title doesn't help. If it were "Who Killed My Mother?" I'd remember for sure).
(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)