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A review by steffanie406
A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
2.0
Despite this being the #7 book in the Bosch series, it’s more like McCaleb #2 featuring Harry Bosch. Unfortunately Terry McCaleb is the main character who gives the first person narrative of events, with shorter Bosch scenes every few chapters.
It’s kind of amazing to see the juxtaposition between the two perspectives in this book; you’d almost think two different authors wrote it. The Bosch scenes are well-written, containing the suspense and intrigue that hooked me on this character many books ago. The McCaleb narrative (which comprises most of the book) is miserable, as we have to suffer through the perspective of a whiny, impulsive, wildly unintelligent, conclusion-jumping, grammar-correcting imbecile. Terry has no hesitation in accusing Bosch of murder, despite the fact that Terry himself was framed in the previous book!! Unbelievable.
To top it off, I listened to the audiobook narrated by Richard Davidson (Dick Hill narrated the Bosch books up until this one) and his narration style is laughably bad. His Bosch voice sounds unintelligibly low and growly like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, he mispronounces common words, and at one point a side character was introduced whose accent was described as from “Australian or New Zealand,” and the narrator promptly read the character’s lines in a posh British accent. Who approved this for publishing?!
I’m glad to see the next Bosch book does not involve McCaleb and hopefully Connelly doesn’t bring him back in the future.
It’s kind of amazing to see the juxtaposition between the two perspectives in this book; you’d almost think two different authors wrote it. The Bosch scenes are well-written, containing the suspense and intrigue that hooked me on this character many books ago. The McCaleb narrative (which comprises most of the book) is miserable, as we have to suffer through the perspective of a whiny, impulsive, wildly unintelligent, conclusion-jumping, grammar-correcting imbecile. Terry has no hesitation in accusing Bosch of murder, despite the fact that Terry himself was framed in the previous book!! Unbelievable.
To top it off, I listened to the audiobook narrated by Richard Davidson (Dick Hill narrated the Bosch books up until this one) and his narration style is laughably bad. His Bosch voice sounds unintelligibly low and growly like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, he mispronounces common words, and at one point a side character was introduced whose accent was described as from “Australian or New Zealand,” and the narrator promptly read the character’s lines in a posh British accent. Who approved this for publishing?!
I’m glad to see the next Bosch book does not involve McCaleb and hopefully Connelly doesn’t bring him back in the future.