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A review by stevendedalus
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
5.0
Absolutely perfect noir. Ellroy finally sheds the assassination climaxes and lurid focus on celebrity and major political events.
Instead he focuses on an emerald heist and an intricate strands that weave his characters together. It's brilliant and it's fun.
It also flows a lot better than "The Cold Six Thousand" since Ellroy's sentences are less short and jagged. There's great flow, as well as variety with diary entries serving to break up the narrative voice. The characters, as always, are awful people, but since the stakes are smaller, they're allowed to breathe a little and it all feels more natural.
It's weird to have the third book of a trilogy be the best by far, but there you go.
Instead he focuses on an emerald heist and an intricate strands that weave his characters together. It's brilliant and it's fun.
It also flows a lot better than "The Cold Six Thousand" since Ellroy's sentences are less short and jagged. There's great flow, as well as variety with diary entries serving to break up the narrative voice. The characters, as always, are awful people, but since the stakes are smaller, they're allowed to breathe a little and it all feels more natural.
It's weird to have the third book of a trilogy be the best by far, but there you go.