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Summary: A roller coaster ride of a thriller that crashes in the end.
Review: Could not put the book down as the chase for the serial killer goes through several states and the FBI. However, the ending could be written by a 10 year old who can't explain why the things happened or any reason for it! Don't read the book if you like mysteries that are solvable or sensible. I don't and would not recommend this book to anyone
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Summary: Hard to put down.
Review: One of the few thrillers that still remains true to its genre.
The author walks the fine line between armchair detective thrillers and
action thrillers, and manages to do a good job of it. The story's
setting/premise is bleak enough to get to the readers' imagination. The book suffers in the wishful thinking on the part of the author. The hero sometimes has too easy a time overcoming problems, which
somewhat mitigates the entire bleak effect.
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Summary: Intrigue at every turn
Review: Once again Michael Connelly has come up with a winner. Mr. Connelly has come up with a new main character, Jack McEvoy,
who is every bit as interesting as Harry Bosch. "The Poet" is about Jack McEvoy's twin brother, a cop, who is killed
by a serial killer, only Jack is the only one who's been
able link the many deaths together. He finally convinces
the FBI and the hunt is on.
The ending to this book is just unbelievable!
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Summary: The blurbs are true!!
Review: Mr. Connelly's books are frightful: full of fright and frightening to to discover a new one. I know that I am going to suffer some real sleep deprivation whenever there is a new one. And work is going to suffer big time the next day.
"The Poet" has the most evil perp in memory. I could not put the thing down waiting for him to get whacked. And THEN!!!
Do yourself a favor. Quit reading this Connelly guy. Maybe he'll find something else to do, other people to torment. I know I'm going to try. Probably. Maybe.
Well, maybe just one more.
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Summary: Forget about sleeping!
Review: Michael Connelly is a Master wordsmith. "The Poet", Connelly's fifth book - and the first to not feature Harry Bosch - is a sleep-stealer! Crisp, fresh, beautifully crafted sentences painted pictures in my mind; I "saw" this
story as it unfolded. Write on!, Michael. I can hardly wait
for your next book.
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Summary: A tense thriller by a unique voice in crime fiction.
Review: It seems that these days everybody wants to write another Silence Of The Lambs. So yeah, we've got a serial killer at large. And a suicide that may be a suicide, but then again, this is a thriller, so nothing's what it seems. Oh, and more FBI agents than you could shake a Smith and Wesson 1076 at. And a trail of dead cops. Okay, Mr Connelly, I thought, I think I know where we're going with this one.
I'm afraid I couldn't sustain my cultivated air of jaded cynicism beyond the first chapter. Connelly's sparse and incisive prose led me through the myriad plot twists; the cool journalistic style mirroring the character of Jack McEvoy, the crime-beat reporter whose intention to write about his police officer brother's apparent suicide turns into a high-pace search for a killer who quotes Edgar Allen Poe.
Added to this is the most memorable killer since Hannibal Lecter and a chilling climax that really sets it above the rest. The brilliance of its construction, the clever way in which everything snaps into place like a well oiled clip into a Colt 45 automatic, left me breathless.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: Another Edgar award winner
Review: By far the best of his 5 published novels. A change from the first 4, H. Bosch novels. This ones grips you by the
throat in the first chapter and never relents. A superb story teller who should be at the top of the
bestseller lists. There no rhyme or reason why you should take my recommendation, but try it you will be
enthralled. Brilliant.
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Summary: The Ultimate 'Cop'-out again!
Review: Stephen King gushes in his promo for this novel but after navigating 500 pages to a "Cop"-out of an ending, I wondered if we had read the same book. Besides the problems with the ending, the bulk of the novel is grossly overwritten, padded almost. Was he paid by the word on this one? On the plus side, as a career news reporter myself, I enjoyed the characters and the book was quick to read. But I threw it across the room when I started to sniff the final twist and yelled: "Not another one of these..." I won't give the ending away but I will accuse Connelly of taking the lazy way to a twist that makes no sense at all. Also, the love story is ludicrous.
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Summary: A crime reporter's dream job
Review: There is some effectively atmospheric writing in this rather mediocre thriller, but it takes incredibly long to gain any momentum. The protagonist's access to police work is beyond all credibility, and although Mr. Connelly creates a couple of nice twists the poet's identity surprises nobody familiar with the genre. I think the author might learn something from the hysterical absurdities of Patricia Cornwell. In other words, Mr. Connelly seems to take himself much too seriously as a writer.
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Summary: The Poet
Review: This was a good book, of course I don't read many and end up thinking most i read are good books.
It was about this serial killer named the poet, who got a rush from killing homocide detectives. He (the poet) used grotesque murders of innocent children(they are molested and mutilatet), or girls who worked with children(also mutilated) to lure his homocide detectives in. Once they got depressed from obsessing over the murders and not finding the culprit, the poet capped them and made it look like a suicide.
Then, this reporter's brother is one of the victims of the strike from the poet's right hand. He investigates more into it, and discovered someone is nocking off police officers.
When I first started reading it, I found it interesting how the writer followed the trail of the Poet, and even bothered to tell us his name, and what he was up to. This is a fairly good book. Like I said, I dont read many, so i dont know if I can fairly justify the goodness of it. It had a couple of twists, which I ran across, like his later book I had read before, "Bloodwork" (which I still havent seen). And, the reason I had read that is because I wanted to see the movie.
I still don't get how you can shoot yourself in the head with a 12 gauge shotgun. And about me not reading alot, I usually just read up until the last few pages, which wasnt true about this book.
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