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Summary: Daylight Saving Time
Review: I was not too impressed with this book, and part of it had to do with the timeline. Is it just me, or did it seem that there were just too many hours in the day for the characters? Let's see, they arrive in the city and meet with a surgeon, get talked into traveling to Tanners Corner to take on an investigation, requisition equipment, set up a lab, train an apprentice, interview local experts, collect and analyze evidence from town employees, Sachs goes to two different crime scenes to "walk the grid" and collect more evidence, evidence is analyzed, a manhunt on foot goes through miles of swamp and bush while being haltingly directed by cell phone, the target is captured, dragged back to town, interrogated, lawyers and psychologists arrive, more interrogation, another meeting with the surgeon, a jail break, another manhunt while an escape is made by boat and on foot, and it's finally starting to get dark. What's up with that?
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Summary: Yet another hit for Deaver and Lincoln Rhyme!
Review: Deaver has, numerous times, exposed his readers to entangled webs of mystery, deceit, and crime. Such is the case in "The Empty Chair" as well. Rhyme, undoubtedly Deaver's most intriguing and interesting creation, graces the great Tar Heel State with his presence. His intentions are to undergo a life-altering surgery that could enable him to use his hands. Instead, the local police of a small community beg Rhyme and Sachs for their assistance in a case in which a teenage boy, dubbed the "Insect Boy," has kidnapped two and possibly murdered another. In a pursuit that will test both his skill and his love for Amelia, Rhyme brings the reader in and out of page turning pursuits. Undoubtedly one of Deaver's best novels yet, and I anticipate reading the next Lincoln Rhyme novel.
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Summary: best book ever
Review: this is the best book I ever read and I got it on my palm pilot with the software
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Summary: Excellent page-turner
Review: You won't be able to put this book down. It is fast paced, twisty plots, Lincoln Rhyme is a grouchy but excellent sleuth. I highly recommend all the Rhyme books.
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Summary: I've found it
Review: Found what?The best Jeffery Deaver novel so far! I came to this novel, a grin on my fave. 599 pages (English paperback edition) of a Jeffery Deaver adventure lay afore me. I couldn't wait to read it. A little tingle came over me, and i knew from the sound of the book that it was going to be good. I couldn't wait to get stuck in. And i wasn't disappointed one bit. This is thoroughly excellent book, utterly enjoyable, and superbly thrilling. It is definitely Jeffery Deaver's best yet. I loved the wonderfully involved and complex plot, the wonderfully well drawn characters, and the ever developing relationship between Rhyme (who is a thouroughly brilliant protagonist) and Sachs (perfect as his partner.) His writing is sharp, terse, tense, and to the point. Nary a word is wasted in his thrill-fest of twists and turns, coupled with some devilishly clever plotting. This one i loved, the best, out of all his thrillers so far. The setting was so well evoked, and Rhyme's clever deduction is a as compelling as ever. This is a highly reccomended novel, many many pages of a wonderful story, packed full of Deaver's trademark twists (although once he does go a bit over the top). Nevertheless, and exhillarating read. Buy it now.
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Summary: What an entertaining read.
Review: Deaver has once again given us a very entertaining read. This one is a nice change of pace (and place) for the Rhyme/Sachs series. I liked the change of setting to the swamplands of North Carolina, and how Deaver lets you feel Rhyme's frustration at being a "fish out of water". Even though he keeps the action going, this one seems a little slower in the first half of the book than some of the rest of Deaver's books. However, after you get by the halfway point the action and the tension really gets cranked up. The last part of the book is typical Deaver. I won't give the ending away, but I will say that the plot twists so much it will make your head spin. Again, this book is a great read, and a great addition to the Rhyme/Sachs series. It adds to the series without rewriting anything. Also recommended: Jeffery Deaver - The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, The Devil's Teardrop; Greg Iles - Mortal Fear and 24 Hours; Nelson DeMille - Plum Island and The Lions Game.
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Summary: ESCAPISM AT ITS BEST! A THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE READ.
Review: It's been a while since I read the first 2 books in this series, but now I remember why I love Deaver's books so much! This one takes place in the North Carolina swamps, and personally, I enjoy being an armchair detective/traveler all at the same time. This is the kind of book that will make you stay up later than you should, and then you'll want to pick it up again the next morning to accompany your Corn Flakes. The pace is energetic, and I loved the mix of different characters and subsets of pursuers, and not knowing who was a good guy or bad guy, until the end. This book isn't as blood-and-gutsy as the prior ones, which I actually liked, and I think plot twists are great - the more, the better! Who wants to be able to figure everything out halfway through the book? The only part that kept me from rating this a "5 star" book is the accidental shooting of one law-enforcement officer by another, and the eventual disclosure about the slain officer at the end of the book in the courtroom scene (I'm trying hard here not to give anything away!), and the unrealistic outcome for the shooter. I think it was very unlike the shooter, based on prior information we were given, to have made this mistake, and the event was simply gratuitous, to raise the stakes. The stakes were high enough already, and this just added one more piece to wrap up at the end, unrelated to the basic story line. Overall, though, this book is one of my favorites.
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Summary: schizophrenic
Review: Jeffrey Deaver is a schizophrenic kind of writer. He can draw the reader into a story almost as well as Stephen King. His characterization is on a par with John Irving. But--and this is a big but--you can also bet he'll go overboard sooner or later.
In THE EMPTY CHAIR, a sequel to THE BONE COLLECTOR, I was routing all the way: "Come on, Jeff; you can do it. You can make it all the way. There's no reason for you to blow it this time!"
He blew it. Three-quarters of the way he went David E. Kelley on me (You know, the outrageous producer/writer of Allie McBeal and Boston Public). This time the entire police force in Tanner's Corner, North Carolina, goes over to the dark side.
That said, I'd still recommend any Deaver novel with Lincoln Rhyme as the main character. This forensic detective is paralyzed from the neck down. He can move the tip of one finger, but he gets around more than Henry Kissenger. In THE BONE COLLECTOR, he was suicidal. In this one, he's goes to the University of North Carolina to undergo experimental surgery. While there, he and his beautiful protegee, Amelia Sachs, are confronted with a gripping kidnapping of two young girls. The main suspect is a young man called the Insect Boy, so named because of his fascination with bugs. The intuitive Amelia thinks he's innocent. Deaver propels the story forward to the wild twist concerning the police department, during which time I found myself saying, "Come on now, Jeff. Is your editor out to lunch?"
All I can say is in the next Lincoln Rhymes I fully expect old Lincoln to be walking around again as if he's just been to Lourdes and caught the cure. Don't put it past Jeffrey Deaver.
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Summary: This is no "Speaking in Tongues" or "Bone Collector"
Review: This book (I had the audio book so it was probably abridged) was very interesting until the last 20%. Then he takes us places which are so far from where we have been led that I ejected the tape and ended it right there. It was pathetic and reminded me of the last few Grisham books. He was selling a great product and I was in a buying mood. He just couldn't close the sale. He kept talking and talking and eventually things were so convoluted, I lost interest.
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Summary: Pretty good Rhyming enclosed.
Review: I liked the book, and in general recommend Deaver to
folks looking for mysteries with a high geek factor and a good
thread of logic to discover. As always, Rhyme is the center
of attention and his problems and triumphs are well-written
and described. The action is all right, a little less believable than some but more than other authors. Some plot twists are silly and seem contrived, but overall it's a good
book. The problem I have with Deaver - and any author - is the
tendency to make their characters beautiful looking people saddled with ridiculous burdens, as if those flaws would somehow compensate for the genetic lottery winnings bstowed upon them.
I don't believe Amelia is a deadeye shooter, quickdraw artist,
and wheelman rolled into a model's package. I read the words,
I see the action, it's not believable. It doesn't ring true,
and that was hard to shake (for me).
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