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Summary: WOW is right!
Review: Terrific, pages turn themselves. Story of US marshall and partner traveling to Shutter Island to investigate patient gone missing. This DEFINITELY DOES NOT turn out to be your average investigation.....
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Summary: Shutter Island
Review: What an excellent read, I read Mystic River, my first Lehane and then Drink Before War, but, this was definitely the best, I mean the best!!!!! My husband was talking to me and toward the end, I said, hold on, I got to read! I have never been so intrigued by the ending! Yes, this needs to be a great movie! Some 40ish actor to play the role, and what a climactic ending! Great going author! clap hands!
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Summary: Not as good as thought it would be...
Review: After reading a number of good reviews, including the ones on here, I picked it up and read it today (it's a very easy read). While it was entertaining, I did find it to be quite predictable and an amalgamation of other stories of this type. It's understandable the characters were not developed too well because of the twist in the story and too much emphasis might have given the game away but I found the book to lack depth in all descriptive areas from locations, characters and the dream sequences. I don't mean to discredit the author as I have not read any of his other books but I found Shutter Island to be a very trashy piece of pulp and having just finished reading Mike Davis' "City Of Quartz" and John Krakauers' "Under The Banner Of Heaven" I found this to be quite a step down in quality... Oh well, that's just my opinion! If you want a quick and easy pulpy thriller I guess this would rank along with the best Dean Koontz and Stephen King but if you're looking for some depth, I'd move on.
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Summary: I don't even like mystery novels and this was good!!
Review: I'll be brief: a good read to lay down with before you go to bed. You'll forget about your day and enjoy what comes next. Pick it up - I don't even like mystery novels and couldnt put this down.
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Summary: The Sixth Sense Effect
Review: The only other Lehane I've read so far is Mystic River, which I loved in every possible way. And so with much anticipation, I stepped into Shutter Island.And was relieved. Here was Lehane again, writing about people I recognize, writing a novel full of mystery, psychology, and violence. I loved this book -- until I got almost to the end. At that point (the "twist"), it did a "Sixth Sense" on me (or perhaps "A Beautiful Mind" is more accurate) and I was reeling. All that intrigue, all that mystery, just gone. Lehane led me to love Teddy's world too much -- and then he took it all away from me. I know it was by design, but I can't help what I feel -- that I was cheated, taken for a ride. The book makes perfect sense, no doubt about it -- but for me, on an emotional level, Shutter Island failed.
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Summary: Knocks it out of the park again!
Review: After the complex, troubling "Mystic River" I was concerned that Lehane would return to the fairly-unimpressive Kenzie/Gennaro sreies which first put him on the map. Instead he delivers an equally complex, troubling book, but one that is about as different from "Mystic River" as could be. "Shutter Island," had me by the throat from the first chapter and never let go until the final haunting page. Part detective thriller, part horror story, the book moves at a breakneck pace, while serving up crackling dialogue and hairpin twists. "Mystic River" clearly wasn't a fluke, and if his hot streak continues, Lehane may yet emerge as one of the best crime writers of the new millennium.
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Summary: Everything is not what it seems
Review: This story starts out as a standard police thriller, but half way through the book makes a left turn, taking the story in a completely different direction. It is somewhat like a twilight zone episode in that sense. I won't reveal the end but, be warned, if you are looking for a standard mystery with a case to be solved, this book is not it, and the end will leave you dissatisfied and cheated. If you like a more psychological study, you may enjoy this.
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Summary: What did I miss?
Review: I was getting frustrated reading this book as I couldn't determine the time frame for the story. Reread the beginning several times. Finally came to Amazon to read other reviews to find the time setting was in 1954. What did I miss? Not my favorite Lehane book, but will pass around to my friends with a sticky note that says it takes place in 1954.
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Summary: It's really a 10!
Review: If you read only one book this summer, or this year, be sure it's Shutter Island!
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Summary: A Twisting Plot Through a Frightening Story
Review: Here we have a thriller that is decidedly different. In the summer of 1954, two US Marshalls, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, ride the ferry to Shutter Island, off Boston Harbor. The island is the site of a hospital for the most dangerous of the criminally insane. The Marshalls are there to investigate the escape of Rachel Solando, a child murderer. Somehow, she got away through locked doors and past a whole staff of orderlies and guards. This raises Teddy's suspicions about a staff that seems more strange by the hour. Things become intense when an unexpected hurricane isolates the island from the mainland. So there you have it: murderous maniacs, creepy staff, and a howling hurricane. The plot could go in all sorts of directions, but Lehane chooses a startling tack that makes the story well worth reading. As it develops, it is like watching a photo come apart and dissolve in water. Then, Lehane hits you with an astonishing climax, followed by a final twist. It's a different and thoroughly ejoyable tale.
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