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A review by octavia_cade
The Hannibal Lecter Collection by Thomas Harris
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
I've finally got around to reading and logging this entire series, having been meaning to read the whole thing for some years now. Hannibal is I think my favourite of the four books; it's certainly the one I've read most often over the years. Red Dragon, which I'd never read before a couple of weeks ago, I think, is a close second. They both got four stars from me, while the other two books only got three. I still liked them, just not as much.
There are some great characters here. Hannibal, of course, and Clarice Starling. But there's also the minor characters, and Harris has a great facility, in particular, for nasty little bottom feeders such as Paul Krendler and Freddy Lounds, who are antagonistic opportunists who are small and mean rather than the great horrific evil of the cannibal... and who get satisfyingly terrible ends anyway.
Anyway: that's one more series I've finally ticked off the tbr list. And a good creepy pleasure it was too!
There are some great characters here. Hannibal, of course, and Clarice Starling. But there's also the minor characters, and Harris has a great facility, in particular, for nasty little bottom feeders such as Paul Krendler and Freddy Lounds, who are antagonistic opportunists who are small and mean rather than the great horrific evil of the cannibal... and who get satisfyingly terrible ends anyway.
Anyway: that's one more series I've finally ticked off the tbr list. And a good creepy pleasure it was too!