A review by paulataua
Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane

3.0

It is hard to say how Lehane could possibly follow “Gone Baby, Gone”, and ‘Prayers for Rain’ never really comes close to the heights of that book. It has all the familiar loved characters, Kenzie, Angie, and Bubba. It also has a sociopathic villain, who doesn’t kill his victims, but gets sadistic pleasure out of interfering so much in their affairs, making things go so wrong in their lives that they end up killing themselves. And yet, with all that potential, I found myself missing the Boston underground, the political corruption, and the dark underbelly of the city that plays such a major role in the earlier books. Definitely worth reading, but the plot loses its way late on and the end is slightly disappointing..