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A review by hidusty
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
4.0
I liked The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. But I really liked The Black Ice.
You can tell that Mr. Connelly had a little more publisher intervention or had a change of heart regarding his previous chapter break scheme. The Black Echo broke the book into something like 6 chapters through the whole book, each break representing a day. It made it easy to keep track of time passing, but that's murder when you want to read from chapter break to chapter break.
This book though is presented wonderfully. Where The Black Echo suffered through slow parts, The Black Ice is all movement. It doesn't feel like any chapters are wasted or unnecessary. It's just great detective fiction. Great action. Great suspense. And a great twist at the end that I didn't see coming.
I will definitely be picking up The Concrete Blonde. Hopefully next month if it gets a price drop like The Black Ice did.
You can tell that Mr. Connelly had a little more publisher intervention or had a change of heart regarding his previous chapter break scheme. The Black Echo broke the book into something like 6 chapters through the whole book, each break representing a day. It made it easy to keep track of time passing, but that's murder when you want to read from chapter break to chapter break.
This book though is presented wonderfully. Where The Black Echo suffered through slow parts, The Black Ice is all movement. It doesn't feel like any chapters are wasted or unnecessary. It's just great detective fiction. Great action. Great suspense. And a great twist at the end that I didn't see coming.
I will definitely be picking up The Concrete Blonde. Hopefully next month if it gets a price drop like The Black Ice did.