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Summary: 4 Stars
Review: Another great one, yes indeed. Michael Connelly is a good writer and one that I can say I enjoy very much. Void Moon is a book that will take you in many directions and each character, good guy or bad buy is someone that you will enjoy reading about. Cassidy Black is the main focus, a woman with a past, on a job to make some quick money and has her own agenda. Jack Karch, the bad guy, but the one you enjoy following.
The characters are ones you can easily follow and you are given the opportunity to learn things as they learn. Reading this book is not escaping but rather a ride a long with a good guy/bad guy and a good girl/bad girl. Toward the end of the book you learn a few things, but it is not as though you learn things that are mind boggling. You just have a better picture of the person. I enjoyed Jack Karck. He as a bad guy, a ruthless one too, but his methods and patterns are ones you will enjoy.
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Summary: Wild About Harry, But Can't Croon At This Moon
Review: Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, without exception (OK, "Darkness More Than Night," but does that really count?), are among the most enjoyable in contemporary "popular fiction" (whatever that is). Bosch is Philip Marlowe (and his City of Angels) brilliantly reinvented. When Connelly strays from Bosch, though, he strays as well from his otherwise superb work. "Void Moon," like "The Poet," is tiresome, predictable and -- worst of all -- not believable. The setup is ludicrous and Cassie Black's motives are incomprehensible (right, let's return to a life of crime and, while we're at it, separate our daughter from the only home and parents she has ever known). Oh, and let's pull off a world-class heist with some off-the-shelf technology, even though we've been out of the business for years. It's difficult to believe that this is the same author who consistently delivers the complex and compelling Harry Bosch books. Clearly, Bosch needs Connelly to survive; as clearly, Connelly needs Bosch.
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Summary: Void is no Vacuum
Review: Connelly's "Void Moon" is a great read for your commute - no complicated history lessons, no deep thought required; just unmitigated fiction to be consumed and forgotten. Does this sound link a ringing endorsement? It is; Connelly can tell a story well, and this is just one of his many fun novels - not deep, not difficult, just enjoyable.
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Summary: can't muster enthusiasm for it
Review: i was very disappointed with this one. I just couldn't get into it at all. I didn't find myself at all "connected" to the main character, and she didn't seem very real to me at all. And, as soon as i felt i might be warming to her, Connelly takes the focus off her and puts it on a new, disalikeable character, and from then on skims between the two. I couldn't get excited about the crime at all, and the plot i found completely uninspiring. The writing was undoubtedly good, and there were some nice quirks in the plot to stop it sinking to cliche, and, as always with Connelly, the plot did seem very real and authentic. The only other Connelly book i didn't have much enthusiasm for was Trunk Music, which was also set in Vegas. With this book, Connelly does a MUCH better job of describing Vegas, and i found that i quite liked the passages when the city seemed to begin to breath in all its glitzy commerciality. The book does improve as it goes along, but not a great deal. The ending scenes are certainly good and there are a couple of really sophisticated twists which improve it, and there are one or two parts along the way i did enjoy a lot, but overall, i was disappointed.
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Summary: Sinful Suspense
Review: Michael Connelly was pretty much right to set most of this story in Las Vegas, where anything goes. As with many books that I've read, I'm hooked at some parts of the book, while I'm wishing for the chapter to end at others. However, the final chapters are indeed gripping, and I now am aware of how some forms of organized crime are executed. The activities done in this story are things that I most likely an unable to do. Cassie is definitely a woman with attitude. I've never read any of the Bosch books, but after reading this, I just might.
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Summary: Awesome book
Review: This is a great book. Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb could not catch Cassie Black. A great story with many twists and turns. As usual, a great ending from Michael Connelly!
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Summary: I'm no crime lover.... BUT
Review: To be perfectly frank with you all, Crime novels are not me. They really aren't. I'm more of a wacky type of reader. I like to hear out of the ordinary type stuff. But!!! My father forced me to read this book about 6 months ago - and I have read it 5 times since then! Honestly, I could not put it down ... yes! even during the 5th time through! hehehe A book that really gets your veins pumping. It really does. The clear description of every little detail by Michael Connely makes you really feel like you are there... experiencing everything. The words just seem to jump inside your heart and really gets it beating faster. I remember that one part where Cassie had to take the suitcase off that gamblers wrist with a whole bunch of keys (not knowing which one was which) in the middle of the night while he was sleeping! Imagine it... !!! Ohhh I can't say anymore... Order this book! You'll never regret it! Great great read!!!
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Summary: Connelly's weakest book
Review: This was unfortunately Connelly's weakest book thus far. The idea is very good, but there's simply not enough style in the execution. It's really too bad...there's too much attention to technical detail, but the characters are more sketched than ever...I think he could have benefited from a female co-writer here.
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Summary: DON'T AVOID THIS MOON
Review: It's not usual for a book to have no real "heroes" in it. At least not the upstanding, moral heroes we're used to in thrillers. With "Void Moon," Michael Connelly gives us Cassie Black, a casino robber par excellence, who finds herself in jail for manslaughter on a hit that went terribly wrong, and cost her the life of her lover, and as the reader finds, even more. Cassie then finds herself lured back into one more crime so that she can start a new life. Of course, that's not always so easy. From start to finish, this is an exceptionally riveting and brutal exercise in crime. So even though Cassie is not the most "moral" of heroines, she is someone you root for and admire for what she does.
The main villain, Jack Karch, rivals Gary Soneji (from James Patterson's books) as one of the most vile and disgusting killers in modern fiction. There are some really brutal scenes in this book, but they are depicted with such ferocity, you can feel the visceral impact.
The concept of the "void moon" is also eerily employed in striking fashion.
THIS IS A HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK.
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Summary: Great book, fast read!
Review: I really enjoyed Void Moon and would love to see a "continuing saga" of Cassie Black ..... Is there more to come regarding this character? Great book!
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