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A review by troutgirl
Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
I always want to grumble at the amount of sociopathy and firepower deployed in this series, but I have to admit that by this point in his career Lehane knows exactly how to keep the pages turning. His plotting has improved to the stellar level always enjoyed by his characterizations and dialogue -- they may be mostly psycho, but damned if his people don't jump off the page -- and the mood of desperate longing for redemption is practically his trademark now.
The scenario here has a certain brutal simplicity: what would it take to drive a normal person to suicide? If you lost your health, your car, your job, your lover, your family, your home, your pet... could you go on? Would you even want to? Who would you become when you hit bottom, and could any force stop the fall? Lehane makes a muscular but surprisingly tender case for bullets, vodka, and just a little bit of human compassion to save us all.
The scenario here has a certain brutal simplicity: what would it take to drive a normal person to suicide? If you lost your health, your car, your job, your lover, your family, your home, your pet... could you go on? Would you even want to? Who would you become when you hit bottom, and could any force stop the fall? Lehane makes a muscular but surprisingly tender case for bullets, vodka, and just a little bit of human compassion to save us all.