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Summary: A Real Page Turner - You Won't Put This One Down
Review: I have recently become a fan of mystery/thriller books and this is one of the best I have read. I have not read Mr. Connelly's other books, but I certainly found this one entertaining. The twists and turns keep the interesting going and it's also refreshing to have a parellel drawn between bad and "not so bad" which is the main character - Cassie. Cassie loves not wisely and can't resist her basic urges to get rich quick, but she is also a person with heart and cares about friends, and especially her daughter. You'll like this book, and it's well worth the reading time.
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Summary: New protagonist, interesting plot
Review: I especially enjoyed getting to know the characters Cassy Black and Jack Karsh. While I found few surprises in the characters' decisions, the story overall was fresh and entertaining.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Although nothing will ever be as good as The Poet (probably the best thriller I have ever read) this one is right up there with Connelly's best. My brother works in a bookstore, so he got me an advance copy and I have to tell you, this one really keeps you reading. I finished it in about two days. Although you will figure out some of the details before they are revealed, the book has a lot of great twists and turns. I particularly like the way that the events of the past are slowly revealed to the reader through flashbacks that occur throughout the entire book. I heartily recommend this book to any Connelly fan, but just to warn you it is not a Harry Bosch story, although it is set in LA.
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Summary: Void Moon
Review: This author is amazing. I have been reading crime/mystery books for the last 35 years and not since Ross MacDonald has an author consistently written one good book after another. This guy just keeps on getting better each time out. Void Moon kept my attention from page one to the very last. It's one of those books you can't put down and when you do finish you have a hard time finding another book worthy to read. This author could offer a guarantee with each book and none would be returned. Treat yourself to the best author in North America, buy this book and buy his other's you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Connelly Does It Again!
Review: I've read all of Michael Connelly's previous books and I was initially dissapointed that the newest effort was without Harry Bosch. Cassie Black and Jack Karsh are both equally intriguing characters and perhaps Harry can interact with them in future books. A thought provoking great read!
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Summary: Look for ANGEL'S FLIGHT in paperback!
Review: Also available in January 2000 is the paperback edition of Michael Connelly's ANGEL'S FLIGHT, the Harry Bosch novel Amazon.com says is "a detective's nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century." Add to your shopping cart and round out your Harry Bosch collection!
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Summary: I can't wait for the next Connelly novel.
Review: I have read all of his books and consider Connelly one of the best! I highly recommend starting at the beginning with Harry Bosch and reading them all!
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Summary: Another outstanding Connelly story...
Review: These books--thrillers, crime novels, whatever you want to the call genre--are often cliche ridden, filled with hollow characters and dialogue, and have all too neat endings. Connelly avoids all of that. He writes exceptionally well and the characters here are fleshed out and vivid. I have not read any of the Harry BOsch novels; sticking only to COnnelly's stand alone works. This is a very interesting story; with a compelling lead character. Connelly writes Cassie as a strong, flawed, and very real woman. Karch is a wonderful foil for her. I wasn't thrilled with the use of the little girl in the climax, but suprising it avoids most cliches. I particularly liked the subtle twists in the last 75 pages. Connelly does not stretch his scenes. He lets them stand on their own power. Another strength...the last chapter. It is not a "neat" ending, but a good one. One note--beware how the publisher is trying to wring every last dollar out of you. Try not to buy the "trade" paperback; the bigger and more expensive one. IS it worth the extra 6 bucks? I don't think so. I hate when they are that transparent in their attempts to make money. Oh, well. That isn't Connelly's fault.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This story (not apart of the Harry Bosch series) was interesting and that's about it. It had lots of information in how high tech hotel robberies are carried out. But the story line was ho-hum. I guess I have come to expect greater things from this author.
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Summary: Don't void this one out
Review: Void moon may not be the one that you should really start off on. If you read "void moon" without having already read the other "Harry Bosch" detective series or the non-Harry Bosch novel "poet", you'd probably end up with the feeling that MC is not a very imaginative writer. Actually, it's far from the truth as here MC has deliberately wrote a down to earth novel which pretty much runs like a very standard movie thriller. In fact, even for a movie, it certainly is a very predictive story. This is not to say the book is bad, it's just that MC could have been a bit more imaginative with a little more twists and turns.
The Story is basically about an ex-con "Cassie Black" who earlier convicted on manslaughter charges (for indirectly being responsible for the death of her partner-in-crime/boyfriend Max Freeling) has just got out on parole due to her good behaviour and good intent to start over. But She is continuously haunted by her past. Max was her mentor and along with Max they were a great team pulling off robberies in casinos, specially targeting high rollers in Las Vegas who had ostensibly won large amounts of cash. For a reason I will not reveal, so as to not spoil the book, Cassie decides to do one last big con so that she can have the money to escape to Tahiti which she has been planning for quite long. This means she will be going back to the life of crime that got her in jail in the first place but she is prepared to take her changes for her last shot at her only surviving dream.
The book is about this last con gone wrong. And this con supposedly goes wrong because it happens at the time of "void moon" that is the time the moon is astrologically between two houses or in other words, inauspicious time. Cassie is told to avoid the void moon time-slot during the time she is pulling off the heist. This she is told by the brain-behind-the-plan-colleague who gets her this project in the first place.
After she pulls it off, she comes to know that she actually stole more money than they were counting on and this money was actually a high-stakes shady pay-off. This gets an assassin called Karp on Cassie's trail. Karp is the sort of guy man for hire who makes all your problems go away. From here it is a chase movie, where the karp is nearing Cassie and along the way a lot of people get killed. MC makes Karp kill almost anyone he finds on his travel tour leading to Cassie Black. I don't really think, a real assassin would draw attention to himself in this manner by just pulling off unjustified killings which have no purpose or are not totally mandatory to the purpose of the job at hand which for Karp is "to get the stolen money back and offcourse to get rid of Cassie + those directly involved" . There is a Predictable cliché ending with a cheap twist put at the end. But really, it didn't work for me.
No surprises here, just a very basic story. You can read all the other MC novels first. Afterwards, probably out of curiosity you can probably scan throught this novel, that's if you want to read every MC on the shelf.
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