Moon Music

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Summary: Moon Music hits sour note.....
Review: As an avid Faye Kellerman fan I was truly expecting to like this book a lot. Unfortunately I had to make myself finish the book, just to make sure that I didn't miss anything. I wanted to give a fair accounting of the book. I frankly didn't like any of the characters, it's almost as if Ms. Kellerman went out of her way to make each of them quirky and/or immoral. She lost me when Poe stops at the prostitutes for a quicky on his way to his girlfriends! The whole basis for the killers "motive" was way too far out there for my liking as well. I will still look forward to any new books from Ms. Kellerman as I think she is very talented,I just didn't happen to like this one.
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Summary: Very disappointing - she is usually so good
Review: The book started out promising, but then Kellerman went down a completely implausible road. Her books have always been so believable, and you really enjoy the characters. Not only did I not like the characters, but the plot, particularly the end, just doesn't work. She needs to stay away from the supernatural, and go back to realism.

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Summary: I was very disappointed
Review: Faye Kellerman is one of my favorite mystery writers so I was really surprised after reading this book. The fantasy aspect is not at all what I have come to expect in her books. If she writes of these characters again, as seems likely given the open ended ending, I will not be reading it. Go back to LA and the DECKERS!

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Summary: Great Characters, silly plot.
Review: I've read all the Decker books, and thought they've been getting progressively weaker. I'm glad to see new, strong, human characters. But the supernatural plot is just silly. Keep the characters and the edginess, but lose the XFiles nonsense.

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Summary: More like a Jonathan Kellerman book than a book by her.
Review: This book is a completely different book from the books her audience is used to reading. This books lacks the wonderful sense of tradition in the Peter Drucker/Rita Lazarus books. I found this book an attempted copy of one of her husband, Jonathan Kellerman's genre. Disappointing and disturbing and definitely not up to the quality of her other books.

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Summary: Good page-turner, but a little far-fetched.
Review: While I did enjoy this story, I was distracted by the author's overuse of the phrase "a beat" to describe a pause in a character's conversational dialog. It became trite, unnecessary, and annoying by chapter 4. Otherwise, this is a good murder mystery with an usual, if far-fetched, twist. To its credit, it did keep me up way passed my bedtime.

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Summary: A big disappointment from one of my favorite authors
Review: I've read all of Faye Kellerman's books and loved them. She writes strong characters who I get very involved with. This book was a departure from that. I never warmed up to or really became interested in any of these characters. And she completely lost me toward the end when things went into the relm of fantasy. I have faith in this author, though, and will buy her next book, even if it isn't a Decker--Lazarus mystery. But I really need to be pulled in more than this book allowed me to be. My suggestion for other readers is to skip this one and wait for her next one.

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Summary: very disappointed in the research
Review: I was thoroughly disappointed with Ms. Kellerman's latest novel. The Las Vegas she writes about no longer exists. It is a fully developed, vibrant city. Everything she writes about the city is old hat. Summer is now the biggest tourist season (without cheap come-ons). There are very few men with the kind of power she attributes to Lewiston, as most of the hotels are corporate owned. Her directions at the beginning of the book from Red Rock to Main Street are completely erroneous. Makes me wonder just how accurate her portrayals of Judaism are in the Decker series.

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Summary: Disappointing novel from one of my favorite writers
Review: What happened to the tightly-plotted, morally-grounded novels we have come to cherish from Faye Kellerman? This new book dabbles in metaphysics or insanity or some such psychobabble. The characters are universally unlikeable (except perhaps the coroner). Even the depiction of the underbelly of Las Vegas fails to satisfy in comparison of other portrayals we've seen (like Leaving Las Vegas). I don't mind a new set of characters but I want to like them and I want a more plausible plot.

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Summary: A major disappointment!
Review: Having read all of Faye Kellerman's previous books, I was happy to see a new title arrive. I can understand the author's desire to create a new set of characters and try a slightly different writing style. With all those short, choppy sentences I thought I would be reading a more hard nosed type of mystery. Other than Poe, I found the characters shallow, couldn't get all the detectives straight until half way thru the book. When the story melted into into it's "fantasy" ending, Kellerman lost me completely. I finished the book simply to see how it ended, not through enjoyment! Please bring back Peter and Rina! If Poe is to return give him a more reasonable plot.