comadivine11 's review for:

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

4.0

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This book wasn't the most mind-blowingly original who-dun-it plot ever, but it was very enjoyable. Lehane is clearly a talented writer and has a way of constructing sentences and paragraphs that are fun to read and leave you thinking, "I never would have described a street, or a house, or a neighborhood in quite that way." I'm surprised I haven't really heard of this author before. I've heard of the movies based on several of his books, but did not know they were books. I watched the movie, Mystic River, tonight, which was critically acclaimed when it was released, and, as usual, the book was much better.