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Summary: California Blue
Review: Lauren Teague, former delinquent, ex-patient of Alex Delaware is found dead in the bottom of a dumpster. There is no shortage of suspects or motives for Lauren had led a complicated, secretive life. A party girl, straight A student, generous to children and friends down on their luck, exquisite personal taste coupled with ugly job skills; Lauren has had bad luck, and it is catching.The strongest area in the book is the incisive portraits of the secondary characters. The uneasy, almost saint-like Ben Dugger, the highly verbal, artistic gay roommate of Lauren's, the brutish, slovenly but shrewd Lyle Teague just sparkle on the page. The description of the fictional "Playboy Mansion" is a brilliant invention. Even protagonist Alex shows an obsessive/compulsive streak that sharpens up his sometimes-bland character. The book is well plotted, though the pace uneven. So what was wrong? First and foremost, I found Lauren unbelievable. She came across as a set of contradictory traits that never added up to a total person. As she was the crux of the novel, it was a fatal flaw. Far too much time was devoted to the wavelets in Alex and Robin's insipid relationship. A secondary plot was superfluous, distracting from the main story and contributed nothing except a few characters that were not even remotely involved with the main plot. "Flesh and Blood" definitely has its moments, just not enough of them.
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Summary: hard to finish type book
Review: How ridiculous that this phycologist would spend that much time investigating a death of one of his patients from 10 years prior that he only saw 2 times. Was not realistic and once you got a flavor for the author could tell what he was up to. I was embarrased for the author....it seemed he thought the readers were uneducated and wouldn't mind that it was unreal. Don't waste your time or money
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Summary: It's better than THE WEB
Review: Mr. Kellerman seems to be getting back on track for Alex and Milo in his new novel. But there are two major mistakes that should have been caught by a able editor and even the author himself and that is the disappointment in this book.
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Summary: Not up to par
Review: The book's premise is a little hard to take seriously. It seems unlikely that Alex Delaware would behave in such an irrational, risky manner. There are too many peripheral characters to keep track of and the subplot seems to infringe on the real story. Definitely worth reading (what Kellerman book isn't?) but by the end you won't really care who did it and the conclusion isn't that logical anyway. I did enjoy the psychological analysis and therapy descriptions, but I'm in the field, so maybe it's not that interesting to someone who isn't.
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Summary: Fiction is Stranger than Truth
Review: Alex Delaware still living in his somewhat wimpy relationship with Robin Castagna finds himself drawn into the investigation of the murder of a one time patient. The patient, Lauren Teague, was a troubled teenager when Alex met her. Her parents cared enough to try to get her into therapy, but their own relationship was strained. Her therapy was abruptly terminated and Alex closed out her unpaid account. Several years later, Alex sees Lauren at a stag party and is embarassed. (Lots of bemoaning the male psyche and feeling bad about watching the strip show until he realizes he knows the entertainer) Shortly afterwards Lauren is discovered dead in a dumpster. As the story progresses people around Lauren begin dieing or disappearing. An old campus murder is rehashed to see if there is a connection. Two professors that Alex knew years ago knew Lauren. Milo, Alex's old friend with the police is working the case, but Alex is the one who keeps following up leads that he thinks are relevant. Alex is a one man team throughout much of the story and he's off in several directions at one time. There are two many characters, two many murders for one story with no serial killer, and a lot of unnessary detail. Enter a Hugh Hefner look alike character with the old guy about to die, a bimbo exwife living on the property, a daughter who is trying to run his empire and an unlikely son conducting some kind of psychological study. There are a lot of details and it takes a long time to tie it all together. Not Kellerman's best work, but an ok read.
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Summary: Another good one!
Review: Kellerman's number one series never misses a beat. Delaware, Robin and Milo all age like fine wine. The plots and the characters keep getting better and better. Unlike some, I saw nothing improbable in this plot, because the circumstances would have clearly led someone like Delaware to perhaps take some bizarre chances in trying to find out what happened to Lauren. It is amazing to me that this series can still be so good after all these years, but it is, and I cant wait for the next one.
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Summary: Insightful and Entertaining
Review: Jonathan Kellerman continues his successful Alex Delaware series with this story of self-forgiveness and redemption. Ten years ago Alex treated a precocious and defiant 15 year old who dropped out of treatment after a couple of sessions. She returned six years later after Alex had seen her acting as the main event at a bachelor's party and confronted him with what he saw. His need to expiate his feelings of guilt and shame served as the prime motivation to find out what happenned to her when she turns up missing four years later. What follows is vintage Kellerman: the psychological insights, the complex, thought-provoking plot, and the ability to delineate characters with description, dialogue and behavior. Kellerman's training as a psychologist gives Alex Delaware an educated perspective and insight of the world and characters with which he lives. His interview technique is skillful and artistic and after he speaks with an important character Alex offers analysis and description of the character's personality traits. FLESH AND BLOOD is one of Kellerman's best. At times it is erotic, educational and suspenseful, but is always entertaining and satisfying. Highly Recommended !!!
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Summary: Thrilling & Chilling
Review: This one has all the ingredients of a good mystery: an eclectic cast of characters, several subplots and rich descriptions. What is nice about this one is that you get a glimpse of Dr. Delaware's past. This is one of the few books that mention his Missouri background and modest lifestyle as a machinist's son. One inconsistency is that in other books where he mentions the car he had as a med student, the car was always a Dodge Dart. In "Flesh & Blood," the Dodge Dart is identified as a Plymouth Valiant. Darts and Valiants were sister cars, but which was it? In his other books wherein Delaware talks about his old car ("Blood Test," "Private Eyes") that car was clearly a Dodge Dart.
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Summary: Another Great Alex Cross Mystery
Review: The last couple of books in the Alex Cross series were a bit disappointing to me, but Mr. Kellerman is back in full force with this one. It's always great to revisit the psychologist and his gay friend, Milo, and go along with them as they investigate another murder. Wonderful read!
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Summary: Alex Dalaware brings us to the opening of a maze...
Review: and dares us to follow him to unfamiliar places,past shadowy figures who leap out of nowhere and death; cruel, sadistic and shattering.
An extrodinarily beautiful woman whom he once treated in her youth, but who slipped through his fingers, is now dead and discarded in a trash bin.
Could he have saved her from this fate? Could he have done more? Or in his zeal did he drive her from the therapy she so desperately needed?
He must have answers...he has no choice if he wishes to live in peace with himself.And so he and Milo, his detective friend and a truly dedicated but complex man, doggedly follow trails. Sometimes the same one..and other times they go in opposite directions.
But as we follow him through this maze of conflicting truths and half-truths, we find that Lauren Teague was a complicated woman. One who sold her body and self-esteem and yet pursued higher education with a straight A average.
Why? Is her murder, so similar to the disappearance of another bautiful woman, connected in some way? And just what, if anything does the "soft-porn" king and his siblings , have to do with her death?
The braid of this plot is complicated, but undone in a manner that is gentle on the mind while riveting the reader to every word until the last word. It is one of those novels that you wish you had just started instead of just ended.
I found only one thing a bit unsettling. I feel that Robin, his live-in girlfriend, and Spike, the funny dog who rules the roost, a little too absent. They normally fill in the more human side of the story.
That aside, don't miss this thrilling read by one of my favorites-Johnathan Kellerman.... A master indeed of the psychological drama!
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