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sn00ter 's review for:
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
I can't quite understand all the love for this book. Don't get me wrong, on the whole I enjoyed it but I've read much better books with lower ratings. This stretches itself too thin in trying to be a whodunnit thriller, a deep examination of the characters' pasts, and a commentary on blue-collar American places. In my opinion it did each of this adequately but hardly in revolutionary style! I found the epilogue particularly poor with overwrought descriptions of exactly how Jimmy was meant to feel. The 'mystery' of the killer had a reasonable if a little underwhelming conclusion. The plot twists, if they can be called that, are quite subtle and introduced in a matter of fact way that fail to really capture the imagination. Not only that but I felt it was too long with too much filler aimed at bulking out the characters, which would have been better achieved by seeing them 'do' more in the plot. I guess my review is quite negative because I was surprised at its rating on here. It's an ok book but I definitely won't read again or actively recommend.