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Review Date: 8/7/2011
Reacher at his best. Shocker of an ending.
Review Date: 12/7/2008
Bummer. I was expecting a police procedural with a hook, and wound up in a paranormal that reminded me more and more of Darren Shan young-adult novel....
Review Date: 10/22/2008
Helpful Score: 1
um....not bad. Quick read. Not as thrilling or suspenseful as many of the reviews made it out to be... but still....
Review Date: 1/20/2011
Totally agree with user Formor in her assessment of this stupid book.
I spent the whole story waiting for something to happen, right up until the non-crescendo, at which point I thought to myself "what a waste of time".
Between this one, and his previous 'You Heart Belongs to Me', it's beginning to seem that after his 30 year run of extremely good suspense/thriller stories, Koontz has completely run out of worthwhile plot ideas.
I spent the whole story waiting for something to happen, right up until the non-crescendo, at which point I thought to myself "what a waste of time".
Between this one, and his previous 'You Heart Belongs to Me', it's beginning to seem that after his 30 year run of extremely good suspense/thriller stories, Koontz has completely run out of worthwhile plot ideas.
Review Date: 2/3/2010
Scientists perform impossibly huge intellectual leaps of reasoning in astonishingly tight timeframes to discover Atlantis, decrypt messages from lost alien civilizations, create a quantum physics Grand Unified Theory, while simultaneously fighting nuclear WW3 against the Chinese and saving the planet and all life on it from the sun going supernova. Oh, and don't forget the romantic intrigues. All in a weeks work. Oh, too bad about Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.
Gimme a break.
Stooooopid plot, disjointed sophomoric writing, unbelievable almost from page 1.
Pavlou, you're off my list.
Gimme a break.
Stooooopid plot, disjointed sophomoric writing, unbelievable almost from page 1.
Pavlou, you're off my list.
Equilibrium: Man is not disturbed by events, but by the view he takes of them"
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Review Date: 7/5/2014
I was intrigued by the title, and synopsis.
However, I was unable to actually read the whole book.
This book was clearly self-edited by the author, and not spell-checked or grammar-checked. Aside from the grammatical errors, the author/editor also did not understand the difference between to/too/two, or there/their/they're and "defanately coudn't spell".
It was too painful to read.
It did however make very good kindling.
0 stars.
However, I was unable to actually read the whole book.
This book was clearly self-edited by the author, and not spell-checked or grammar-checked. Aside from the grammatical errors, the author/editor also did not understand the difference between to/too/two, or there/their/they're and "defanately coudn't spell".
It was too painful to read.
It did however make very good kindling.
0 stars.
Review Date: 10/13/2009
not a bad thriller, quick read...too many co-incidences to be believable (to me).
As a devout agnostic, i also found portions of it too preachy and just weird.
As a devout agnostic, i also found portions of it too preachy and just weird.
Review Date: 6/8/2012
Overall liked it, unusual ending for a police-procedural, or whatever you call this genre. A somewhat less satisfying Joe Gunther than the others I've read so far.
Review Date: 3/1/2010
Non-stop action, in places a wee bit farfetched, but overall a book I couldn't put down until finished....
Review Date: 11/2/2010
Helpful Score: 3
Stilted dialog. Wooden characters. Jagged dialog written with the agenda of sending a specific message, rather than building an entertaining novel. A 430 page lecture.
Stylistically unlike the other Robin Cook medical mysteries I've read.
Stylistically unlike the other Robin Cook medical mysteries I've read.
Review Date: 12/26/2011
Helpful Score: 1
Picked this Ken Grimwood up after being blown away by his "Replay", but wound up not as satisfied with "Into the Deep" as with his later work.
The rationale behind this underwater Orca/Dolphin war & subsequent peace were never really outlined, and didn't really add anything to the plot at all, except a few descriptive action-oriented sections in a few paragraphs.
Putting that aside, not a bad read, liked but didn't love..
The rationale behind this underwater Orca/Dolphin war & subsequent peace were never really outlined, and didn't really add anything to the plot at all, except a few descriptive action-oriented sections in a few paragraphs.
Putting that aside, not a bad read, liked but didn't love..
Review Date: 2/14/2010
Well written, engaging/tearful story. I did find the ending kind of open, with a lack of satisfying closure, so not the kind of book that leaves me feeling "well, that was really good". (And not the kind of book that imho would present itself well as a movie)
Nevertheless, evocative prose style and content of the first 150 pages had me riveted and on verge of tears.
Nevertheless, evocative prose style and content of the first 150 pages had me riveted and on verge of tears.
Review Date: 5/4/2010
Not-too-shabby action/suspense novel masquerading under eco-theme. Interesting writing style. The two different subplots taking place at distinct locales (Galapagos high-action and medical-containment-ward) remained unfortunately pretty distinct, and not really woven together by much plot development, as if Hurwitz glued one action novel and a medical thriller together with some binder twine.
A wee bit of deus-ex-machina and fully anticipated final page twist.
Nevertheless, a very decent read, and couldn't put it down.
A wee bit of deus-ex-machina and fully anticipated final page twist.
Nevertheless, a very decent read, and couldn't put it down.
Review Date: 11/28/2012
mindless, silly, sophomoric. Filled a rainy day...
Review Date: 2/8/2010
Combine a good police procedural with the best of Robin Cook, and you come up with this winner. Well written, good twists right up to the end. Couldn't put it down, can't wait to read more from this author :-)
Review Date: 1/6/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Sequel to "Death List". The author states on his website about "Soul Collector" that "series are actually harder to write than stand-alone novels". No kidding.
I liked "Death List", and even gave it 4 stars, but this sequel is horribly written. Disjoint plot,unconnected events, magical leaps-of-reasoning, deus-ex-machina explanations, more than one plot error in which one character somehow has knowledge of an event that occured to a different character, and it concludes with a horrible segue to the inevitable 3rd book in the series. Unsatisfying to the max. Johnston is off my to-be-read list....
I liked "Death List", and even gave it 4 stars, but this sequel is horribly written. Disjoint plot,unconnected events, magical leaps-of-reasoning, deus-ex-machina explanations, more than one plot error in which one character somehow has knowledge of an event that occured to a different character, and it concludes with a horrible segue to the inevitable 3rd book in the series. Unsatisfying to the max. Johnston is off my to-be-read list....
Review Date: 3/1/2010
Seldom, in my 40 years of reading SF, have I encountered a book that I didn't think was worth the effort of bothering to finish. After 150 of its total 560 pages, this one made the short list. Not my cup of tea.
Review Date: 9/24/2010
A good legal thriller, lives up to the the genre. This is the first book by Barbar Parker I've stumbled over, will definitely read more. Ms. Parker listed as a former prosecutor, so she knows her stuff...
However, there was one aspect of this novel that I found very disturbing, and I certainly hope that is not reflective of Ms. Parker's life, or of the law profession as a whole: The main protagonist in this book is a single mother of a 10 year old daughter, and throughout the book the child is constantly ignored or disappointed by her mother constantly placing work-priorities ahead of her daughter, or the child is being scolded for being rude -- when in fact she appears to be simply attempting to call out to her mother for some minimal attention and perhaps at least one unbroken promise -- and the protagonist continually places job, romanitc love, and detective-work far ahead of her daughter. As a parent, I found this repeated theme extremely disturbing. What is also disturbing is the way in which this child-neglect is written makes it appear as if it is construed by the author as normal, and that the child should have just understood that her mother had no time for her. Appalling, in my eyes.
I hope Ms. Parker did not raise her own children in this neglectful manner :-(
Note that all of this is actually incidental to the story line,
but I did find it disturbing....
However, there was one aspect of this novel that I found very disturbing, and I certainly hope that is not reflective of Ms. Parker's life, or of the law profession as a whole: The main protagonist in this book is a single mother of a 10 year old daughter, and throughout the book the child is constantly ignored or disappointed by her mother constantly placing work-priorities ahead of her daughter, or the child is being scolded for being rude -- when in fact she appears to be simply attempting to call out to her mother for some minimal attention and perhaps at least one unbroken promise -- and the protagonist continually places job, romanitc love, and detective-work far ahead of her daughter. As a parent, I found this repeated theme extremely disturbing. What is also disturbing is the way in which this child-neglect is written makes it appear as if it is construed by the author as normal, and that the child should have just understood that her mother had no time for her. Appalling, in my eyes.
I hope Ms. Parker did not raise her own children in this neglectful manner :-(
Note that all of this is actually incidental to the story line,
but I did find it disturbing....
Review Date: 12/5/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Another Sheldon enjoyable non-stop read.
I did find that it sometimes felt like I was reading his initial outline-sketch for his planned novel, instead of the final detailed finished product....perhaps that's because he was trying to cram a lot of stuff/plot into a finite number of pages...
I did find that it sometimes felt like I was reading his initial outline-sketch for his planned novel, instead of the final detailed finished product....perhaps that's because he was trying to cram a lot of stuff/plot into a finite number of pages...
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