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Summary: Horror for Beginners?
Review: I loved the research Kellerman put into making the Las Vegas area come to life in my mind. I liked the new characters, but they weren't quite as developed as the Decker characters. I kept thinking that maybe Kellerman was trying to break into the Anne Rice genre of seductive horror. It almost held my attention... but it seemed like some of the plot was a stretch. I think Kellerman needed a break from her usual characters and crimes. Maybe Moon Music was a "let's do something else cause I'm burned out on Decker/Lazarus novels." I give it a so-so... don't buy the hardback, but if you see it in a used bookstore, go ahead and grab it!
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Summary: Not Just Bad, But Offensive
Review: I have read Faye Kellerman's previous books with a kind of irritated fascination--I dislike her characters more with each new book, but the writing is competent. This book enters new territory. It violates justifiable expectations on the part of the reader as to the parameters of the situation, so that when I came to the "solution," I realized that I never had a chance of figuring it out on my own--a prime condition for *any* murder mystery. Furthermore, the "use" (shall we be more accurate and say, "exploitation"?) of Native American myths is wholly inaacurate and deeply offensive. I have done with Ms. Kellerman as an author. She does not deserve my time, my attention, and most of all, she doesn't deserve my money. If I could have returned this book, I would have. As it was, I actually threw it away.
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Summary: Different and Enjoyable
Review: I regret several of my fellow readers did not enjoy this book. However, I found Kellerman's characters well developed and the plot enthralling. I just could not put this book down. Kellerman does an excellent job of allowing you inside the thoughts of all the characters, not just the main ones. I also enjoyed the Las Vegas setting and the excellent description of the topography-I "felt" the heat and the aridness of the city that never sleeps. Rom Poe is a likeable hero, but not without flaws. And Allison is an interesting villan. The new murders and the old unsolved murders of the Bogeyman kept me questioning who the killer or killers were. Just when I thought I had it completely figured out, Kellerman would throw me a curve. Thank you - I enjoy curve balls in a novel - especially in a murder mystery. The Indian mystic was also a nice touch.
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Summary: A disappoint from a great writer
Review: What started off as a totally enthralling murder, set of characters and driving plot turned into the unbelievable. I didn't accept the cause of Alison's condition (there should have been hundreds of the "them" wandering around the dessert)and would have preferred if the "mystical" and Indian myths and beliefs aspects had been used. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Great audio book!
Review: I listened to Serpent's Tooth audiobook by Faye Kellerman and it was pretty good. But Moon Music is excellent. With a new character Romulus Poe. It kept my interest all the way through. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Am I allowed to say that this SUCKED!
Review: I am one of those readers that normally can't put a book down until I know "who dun it." I put this down too many times to count...and kept hoping that something/someone would come from behind to save this. I was on my very last Faye book - got really sick of her attempt at characterization by showing off her "Jewish" knowledge - most of the time it had very little to do with her characters, but added a little interesting information. But what the heck was this? Stick to what you know, even if it can be somewhat annoying...that's ever so much better than absolute disbelief! I will never, EVER, read another of her titles...too much to read and too little time to waste mine! I feel a little guilty - this is the first public bashing I have ever done of an author - but it was well deserved.
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Summary: Moon Music Thoughts
Review: When I began reading this book I flew through the first quarter and was excited to meet new characters (although I do love Peter, Rina, Marge, et al). The second quarter of the book I also mowed through and was loving the suspense and the clever use of very complex mental disorders in her characters.The last half of the book and what I felt was a cop - out ending kind of lost me. I never felt like I was given an opportunity to warm up to the relationship between Romalus and Alison and therefore couldn't accept the passage of supernatural powers from one to the other at the end. Also, I felt like the supernatural vein was a turn that the book took at the last minute; the info provided re: the nuclear testing, and the abnormalities of some of the characters etc just wasn't enough to make the leap to werewolves and the like. The lack of foreshadowing about any super / hyper natural occurances until the very end left this reader feeling kind of cheated out of the mystery that I was expecting. The loose ends of Alison's mother Linda, her demise and questionable, unexplained state of mental functioning (did she have OCD too?) was frustrating. I did like the creation of unusual (read: not stock) characters like Y, Ruki and even Romalus himself. But it would have been all the more interesting to see these characters juxtaposed against more "mainstreamish" characters, too, just to watch the conflicts and relationships play themselves out that much more. I was disappointed with this book, and the ending had me longing for Peter and the gang to get back on the pages with mysteries to solve.
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Summary: DREADFUL BOOK!
Review: Waste of time and money. Amazon should develop a negative scale, as well, something like little skunk symbols. This novel suffered from poor character development, laughable use of the supernatural, weak writing, weaker editing, AND bad proof-reading. I only finished it because I was trapped on a trans-Atlantic flight, and I chucked it in the trash when I got off the plane.
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Summary: Stop! Please don't buy this book.
Review: This is truly one of the worst books I have ever read. Patricia Cornwell also wrote a book along the same theme which was much better. It was completely frustrating, the characters are fake, plot is filled with unbeliveable "twists". Overall, it wasted my time and money.
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Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Review: This was an interesting book, but very unlike her others. It was also annoying in that she obviously does not understand how video poker works, yet she goes back to it over and over. I probably would have enjoyed more had I been in the mood for this type of stuff.
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