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Summary: Should have been a 5 Star book!!
Review: Walter Mosley is a wordsmith of the highest quality, and his prodigious skills are on display throughout Blue Light. As you read the opening of this book, you will be sucked into the narrator's mind. You feel his anguish, you revel in his discoveries, you fear for his safety. This book has a wonderful premise: A light falls from the sky, imbueing everyone who lays eyes upon it with wonderful powers. I won't describe any more of the plot to you because a large part of the enjoyment factor of this book is experiencing the ebb and flow of the plot. One thing kept me from awarding this book the five star treatment. The book ends in an obvious cliffhanger. Granted, Mosley does wrap up the story in a satifying manner. Granted, most sci-fi books work under the trilogy pattern. Still, I would have felt less used if this book would have ended a little less . . . maniputively.
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Summary: Blue Light
Review: Walter Mosley is normally a detective writer, known for his Easy Rawlins stories. Blue Light is a diversion into a genre that would fall somewhere between science fiction and new age. Various people in northern California are zapped with a blue light that makes them weird. According to the book's cover flap, the light brings out the potential of any person it strikes. However in the book it simply magnifies their existing personality. A smart girl becomes really smart, a young girl with quick reflexes becomes something of a ninja, and a promiscuous wife becomes a sex goddess. Mr Mosley is a talented writer. His prose and some of his action sequences makes this book readable. Unfortunately there's little balance between good and evil, which is problematic since the whole second half of the book is one long buildup of suspense towards a final apocalyptic encounter. Even more unfortunate is the fact the long awaited encounter is tedious and uninteresting. There's a few great and captivating scenes in this book, but otherwise extremely little to recommend itself.
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Summary: It sounds like the blues through words
Review: Walter Mosley's creativity takes flight to another level in Blue Light. His diversity in talent and imagination is celebrated through this mood piece that is covered with the blues and wrapped in a combined cloth of Science Fiction and Crime Novels flavor. Mosley is speaking out to the environmentalist by singing out a blues song that has enlightened his characters into existence. I heard the music as I read and felt the various musicians change positions to do their own thang in the center stage. This novel should not be compared to Mosley's colored mysteries but be accepted and appreciated for its originality and brillance!
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Summary: Novice To SciFi
Review: With just one science fiction book under my belt I found Mr. Mosley's book to be an entrance into the world of letting my imagnation go. Mr. Mosely has drifted from his characters and time of Easy, Etta Mae and Mouse. I must admit the 1st couple of pages were a bit hard to get through but with a thirst for the unknown I continued and found it to be a world of nature, lightning bolts, death, life, murder & inhibitions within my mind and nature. I was taken from my train ride to & from work to a world that may come upon us at some time in our life if not just in our mind's eye. This book gave me a chance to use something I thought I no longer had. My imagination.
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