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A review by endlessreader
Die Again by Tess Gerritsen
5.0
I have to admit that I was extremely skeptical when I picked up Die Again which is a first since I usually love the books in the Rizzoli and Isles series and when it comes to mysteries, I'm not that picky. However, two reasons made me apprehensive in picking up Die Again. First, I've been going through one hell of a reading slump where it now takes a truly spectacular book to make any sort of impression on me and two, I wasn't enamored with the last Rizzoli and Isles book. So, I was prepared to not love this one. However, I was so (SO!) wrong!
While reading Die Again, I kept thinking "Okay so far, but nothing amazing". Then little things kept popping up that kept making me enjoy this read. For example, as someone who was always a bit put off that despite the fact that this series is called Rizzoli AND Isles, we usually have Rizzoli in one corner and Isles in the other (which is in stark contrast to the series...which I love). Or we have Rizzoli mainlining a case while Maura is MIA for the whole book except for a couple of pages in the end. But in Die Again we didn't have Rizzoli...Isles, we actually had Rizzoli AND Isles. Jane and Maura were kicking ass and taking names through this whole book. And they had angsty friendship issues...and I LOVE angsty friendship issues. And then in the other corner you had Detective Frost who I love because he's both badass and sweet and I've missed him (especially when you take into account Lee Thompson Young's suicide and a wound that won't fully heal for those who loved Frost on the TV show version of Rizzoli and Isles). So your regular players are basically back and better than ever.
The case aspect of Die Again was one that didn't suck me in immediately. In fact, while reading about our non-regular player characters in Africa, I kept thinking "Come on! Let's get back to Jane/Maura/Frost." Yet along the way, I ceased to think that way and every time we had Jane/Maura chapters I was extremely anxious to get back to the chapters narrated by the tourists in Africa. Talk about build-up when it came to the case. And once it hit, it just kept on going and going. Also, points to Die Again for catching me by surprise when it came to the whodunit. It didn't even cross my mind.
tl;dr = I absolutely LOVED Die Again. It wasn't my favorite Rizzoli and Isles book (because nothing can surpass the awesomeness that is Ice Cold), but it's still up there with one of the best books in this series. And I'm actually still waiting for the moment where I get sick of reading about these main characters because seriously 11 books in and the author has not lost steam and the series doesn't seem as though it's just meandering along waiting for someone to take it out of its misery. It's still great, it's still fresh, and still deserves a read.
While reading Die Again, I kept thinking "Okay so far, but nothing amazing". Then little things kept popping up that kept making me enjoy this read. For example, as someone who was always a bit put off that despite the fact that this series is called Rizzoli AND Isles, we usually have Rizzoli in one corner and Isles in the other (which is in stark contrast to the series...which I love). Or we have Rizzoli mainlining a case while Maura is MIA for the whole book except for a couple of pages in the end. But in Die Again we didn't have Rizzoli...Isles, we actually had Rizzoli AND Isles. Jane and Maura were kicking ass and taking names through this whole book. And they had angsty friendship issues...and I LOVE angsty friendship issues. And then in the other corner you had Detective Frost who I love because he's both badass and sweet and I've missed him (especially when you take into account Lee Thompson Young's suicide and a wound that won't fully heal for those who loved Frost on the TV show version of Rizzoli and Isles). So your regular players are basically back and better than ever.
The case aspect of Die Again was one that didn't suck me in immediately. In fact, while reading about our non-regular player characters in Africa, I kept thinking "Come on! Let's get back to Jane/Maura/Frost." Yet along the way, I ceased to think that way and every time we had Jane/Maura chapters I was extremely anxious to get back to the chapters narrated by the tourists in Africa. Talk about build-up when it came to the case. And once it hit, it just kept on going and going. Also, points to Die Again for catching me by surprise when it came to the whodunit. It didn't even cross my mind.
tl;dr = I absolutely LOVED Die Again. It wasn't my favorite Rizzoli and Isles book (because nothing can surpass the awesomeness that is Ice Cold), but it's still up there with one of the best books in this series. And I'm actually still waiting for the moment where I get sick of reading about these main characters because seriously 11 books in and the author has not lost steam and the series doesn't seem as though it's just meandering along waiting for someone to take it out of its misery. It's still great, it's still fresh, and still deserves a read.