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Summary: Now This is the Connelly I know and Love!!
Review: Forget the stiffness in "Trunk Music"! This is the real Michael Connelly. Makes me want to go back and re-read "Poet" just to catch up on the intricacies of Terry that I forgot. Easy to read....Heck! pulls you along and won't let you stop. Thanks, Michael, for not letting me down.
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Summary: This book is a must read for mystery readers.
Review: Michael Connelly has just written his best book. It will read even better if you read all of the Harry Bosch books first, begining with Black Echo. This will give you a feeling for his writing style, which will enhance this read. Michael's characters come alive with all the foibles with which we deal with in real life. As a story teller Michael ranks with W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy giving you reading entertainment at its best. There are already too many reviews with the story line in it. So, I will only comment on the quality of the book. Read it. When you are finished, you will want more mysterys from Michael. As the story unfolds so do the facts, and so do the twists. Allow for lots of time for you will not want to put this book down.
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Summary: Previous books are better
Review: I became a Connelly fan when looking for a summer vacation read and picked up BLACK ICE, and became engrossed immediately. While I am waiting for him to pick up the Bosch character again, this book will suffice as a good read. But for the person who is just getting into his books I rate them this way. The Black Echo and The Last Coyote are THE BEST. So many plot twists and turns and it all fits together, a page turner to the very end. Which is what I don't like about Blood Work is that it laid out for you to much unlike the two above mentioned titles. I guess I just perfer Bosch's kick-ass style verses the lead characters in Blood Work and The Poet.
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Summary: I'm praying Harry Bosch will come in and save this trash!
Review: I've drug myself about half-way through this book and I keep wondering when I am going to stop beating my head against the wall. Talk about cliche and tedious! Although I didn't really like the Harry Bosch characters, Connolly's Bosch novels were very fast paced and clever. This one is just boring and the Terry McCaleb character makes me want to run and find Harry. Ugh, is this Terry guy scanctimonious and enough to make me gag! Don't make the same mistake as me; if you don't like it in the first 50 pages, the next 100 are worse.
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Summary: Once you start it, you won't put it down!
Review: This is the first Michael Connelly book I read and it won't be the last. It's a great thrilling story, written by a great storyteller. A must-read!Just and advice: Don't start reading it until you have a quiet week ahead, because after reading the first chapter you won't stop until it's over.
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Summary: Makes other writers's books sound so weak
Review: I am an attorney on the road every week and I play one or two books a week, after Blood Work I have found it very hard to find another writer's work to fill the long hours. Mr. Connelly's writing is smart. Blood Work takes you on many paths, all of which are worth the trip, and then you think you have reach the final stage of the story but to your great suprise the plot gets better. The only thing that saved me to this point was that Mr. Connelly had other books for me to read, now I have readed them all and I can not find another author to hold my interest. So enjoy Mr. Connelly's books But, look out for the withdraws.
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Summary: A novel not just for entertaining only
Review: I always think that a well-researched good novel is the easiest and fastest way to get new information or anything you didn't quite familiar with before. "Blood Work" is such a book that not only entertaining but also very informative, especially on the basic criminology. Mr. Connelly delivered again this time, making a novel quite readable and knowledgeable. His style has become more natural and smooth. Except the loneliness of the hero that is always there, this time, he let a heart-transplanted divorced guy find true love in the end, a gentler and kinder ending than what his Harry Bosch series ended up with. Mr. Connelly also let the reader get a true picture of how repeatively boring but intensive when a guy tried to solve several lukewarm or even cold murder cases; what kind of a**hole detective(Det. Arrago} and die-hard detective(Det. Winston) should be. As always, by linking the unsolved "Code Killer" with this new novel is a quite seamless patchwork done by him. Only some have-to-be-repeative parts in this novel could be flipped easily through if you would like to speed up your reading.
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Summary: Thought-provoking, edge of your seat kind of book
Review: I really enjoyed "Blood Work." Michael Connelly has a way of weaving a tale that's so intricate it was hard to put the book down. I thought his characters had a lot of heart. I highly recommend "Blood Work." I wish I enjoyed every book as much as I did "Blood Work."
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Summary: A Gripping Read--Un-put-downable!
Review: Michael Connelly's latest thriller is a much more believable work than his previous stand-alone, _The Poet_. In this one, his protagonist is Terrell McCaleb, FBI retireee and recipient of a recent heart transplant. When the sister of his organ's donor comes to ask him to get involved in the investigation, McCaleb feels a very personal connection to the case, which draws him in. Connelly does a great job with the inter-departmental rivalries involved in the case and the reluctance of both police and sheriff's departments to have McCaleb get involved. Also quite real are the insights into McCaleb's recuperation, when a temperature of even 1 or 2 degrees above normal suddenly becomes a matter of concern. What McCaleb eventually discovers in his investigation is a real shock, one which Mr. Connelly keeps hidden pretty well until the climactic moment. My only real problem with the book was the swift and relatively easy capture of his quarry towards the end. A strong recommendation!
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Summary: Exciting, emotional, and a great read!
Review: Being a had a heart transplant recipient made me relate to Terry McCaleb on a level most can't. All the emotional twist and turns in this book were dead on. The plot unwinds in a believeable fashion and the twists keep surprising.
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