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A review by obsidian_blue
The Waiting by Michael Connelly
2.0
So this dragged terribly. Harry was barely in this. I'm just a little exhausted by Renee cause she just seems to be ridiculous and the overall story and side plot lines that were going on didn't really work. We get more of Maddie Bosch in this one and if she's supposed to be taking over for Harry hard pass.
And Connelly decided that he was going to take on a famous unsolved murder case in this one and solve it was just eye roll inducing.
Full review: Bummed I paid for this one and didn't just wait it out via the library. If you do want to follow up with Renee and Harry, you may want to wait on this.
"The Waiting" follows Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch. The last time we got Harry, he was in a Lincoln Lawyer book (go back and read that one). I felt a bit disenchanted with the last Renee/Harry book and lo and behold I still am. "The Waiting" starts off with a side quest plot that leads to a larger plot, but not one of "the big ones." Renee goes surfing, thieves hit her car and she loses her badge and gun. Instead of having any sense, Renee decides to tell no one, but is on the lookout on how to get it back. On top of that, she's still leading the cold case unit. She has some new people, and the terrible Colleen is still there. With a cold case that can lead back to a serial rapist and then murderer, Renee has a lot going on. But then Harry's daughter, Maddie wants to join the unit, and she thinks she has the key to solving one of LA's worst unsolved murder cases.
Yes, that was a lot and no, nothing really hangs together well. We get drips about Renee's life. She still is the world's worst dog owner. There's no real development there at all. Connelly tries to invite interest by giving us another insight into Renee's life and potential ties to the fires that recently occurred in Maui.
Harry is in this, just. He gets involved with one of the side quests and then just disappears. It didn't even make sense to me what was even going on, but it read like a Harry Bosch thing and not a Renee Ballard thing. I get that Connelly always likes to tie his settings into our "real world" but I called BS on that whole subplot due to the ridiculous amount of plot holes I won't get into so I don't spoil anyone.
Maddie is a blank slate. Why Connelly didn't either switch the POVs in this one with Renee and Harry is baffling, but you think he would have used this book to allow us into Maddie's point of view more and he didn't. I don't even get what moves her as a character, she felt more developed as a kid.
The book just goes through the motions for the most part and we get a death that I hard shrugged about.
The ending was not to be believed, and I honestly don't know if I feel like bothering myself with any other Renee and Harry books. The last one was a lot, but I at least gave that 3 stars, and you can read my review here: my review of Desert Star
And Connelly decided that he was going to take on a famous unsolved murder case in this one and solve it was just eye roll inducing.
Full review: Bummed I paid for this one and didn't just wait it out via the library. If you do want to follow up with Renee and Harry, you may want to wait on this.
"The Waiting" follows Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch. The last time we got Harry, he was in a Lincoln Lawyer book (go back and read that one). I felt a bit disenchanted with the last Renee/Harry book and lo and behold I still am. "The Waiting" starts off with a side quest plot that leads to a larger plot, but not one of "the big ones." Renee goes surfing, thieves hit her car and she loses her badge and gun. Instead of having any sense, Renee decides to tell no one, but is on the lookout on how to get it back. On top of that, she's still leading the cold case unit. She has some new people, and the terrible Colleen is still there. With a cold case that can lead back to a serial rapist and then murderer, Renee has a lot going on. But then Harry's daughter, Maddie wants to join the unit, and she thinks she has the key to solving one of LA's worst unsolved murder cases.
Yes, that was a lot and no, nothing really hangs together well. We get drips about Renee's life. She still is the world's worst dog owner. There's no real development there at all. Connelly tries to invite interest by giving us another insight into Renee's life and potential ties to the fires that recently occurred in Maui.
Harry is in this, just. He gets involved with one of the side quests and then just disappears. It didn't even make sense to me what was even going on, but it read like a Harry Bosch thing and not a Renee Ballard thing. I get that Connelly always likes to tie his settings into our "real world" but I called BS on that whole subplot due to the ridiculous amount of plot holes I won't get into so I don't spoil anyone.
Maddie is a blank slate. Why Connelly didn't either switch the POVs in this one with Renee and Harry is baffling, but you think he would have used this book to allow us into Maddie's point of view more and he didn't. I don't even get what moves her as a character, she felt more developed as a kid.
The book just goes through the motions for the most part and we get a death that I hard shrugged about.
The ending was not to be believed, and I honestly don't know if I feel like bothering myself with any other Renee and Harry books. The last one was a lot, but I at least gave that 3 stars, and you can read my review here: my review of Desert Star