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Summary: UNDERDEVELOPED, BUT INTENSE AS ALL GET-OUT!
Review: Cassie Black is running scared. And she has good reason to be. She just pissed off the wrong people, the same people who killed her partner-in-crime boyfriend and the same people who are now responsible for leaving a trail of bloody bodies and pinning the blame on her. Just recently released on parole from prison...she can't turn to the law to help her. Besides, she just robbed a man of over 2 million dollars, a man who is found shot dead in his Las Vegas hotel room bed the following morning. She needs the dough, but didn't expect quite the amount that she ended up with. She decides to keep it though, to start a new life for her...and her daughter. The reader learns of this little 'secret' part of the way into the story, but is not given enough time to adjust to believing that Cassie actually cares for her...yet that is her motivation for doing all that she does.It's on this premise that Michael Connelly builds his latest work. Well-written, with enough suspense to hook the reader all the way through, the story itself lacks. The characters come across as mere facades for more promising, better-developed characters lurking just beneath. While Connelly delivers a technically accurate and exciting story...he seems to leave out the meat---the emotional development. Had the characters been more detailed, the motivation which carries the plot might have come across as a much stronger foundation. Since that doesn't happen, the story seems a bit flat and underdeveloped. The action is intense...if that's all you're looking for.
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Summary: WORST OF THE BEST
Review: I HAVE ENJOYED READING MICHAEL CONNELLY'S EIGHT PREVIOUS BOOKS.BUT THIS BOOK WAS A TOTAL WASTE OF THE PAPER IT WAS PRINTED ON .I HAVE COME TO EXPECT A MUCH BETTER LEVEL OF WRITING FROM MICHAEL CONNELLY.HIS OTHER BOOKS TRANSPORTED THE READER INTO THE WORLD OF HIS CHARACTER'S.I DO HOPE HIS NEW BOOK "A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT " IS AN IMPROVEMENT.
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Summary: No real hero - still a fun ride
Review: The action is constant, and the detail on Cassie's trade (thievery) is excellent. I've seen some complaints that there are no likeable characters. Yes, they're all thugs, which made it a unique read for me. I enjoyed how the story played out and didn't mind if there was no character with which I could 'cuddle'. :-7
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Summary: M.C. only proved himself a better, more dimensional writer
Review: Just loved and enjoyed it---AGAIN! Mr. Connelly is such great and rare talented writer. Like Thomas Perry but John Grisham unlike, none of his creations so far left any bad taste after you left his art gallery. I'd like to encourage Mr. Connelly, the great artist to try any dimension and field other than the "Harry Bosch" series (but never phase it out, please). Since you are such a wonderful storyteller, just tell us whatever you consider it an urge to let out and we would listen(read). Life is short, yet having several great writers to keep it at least enjoyable is a bless. Keep healthy and maintain a long, long good writing life, Michael! We are counting on you, Sir!
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Summary: Great Mystery!
Review: This is a really good book. I liked the heroine. She's belivable and very vulnerable so that you just feel for her. The story moves quickly and definitely keeps the reader's interest. I couldn't help thinking what a great movie this book would make, Do you suppose that is what Connelly had in mind all along? For anyone who likes a good mystery with a "down-on-her-luck" heroine, this is the book for you.
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Summary: She may be an ex-con, but Cassie Black is human, too.
Review: I received this novel completely by accident. I forgot to send back the little paper telling the book club I didn't want it. When I read the jacket, however, I was intensely interested. The book featured a strong female character, Cassie Black. She's an ex-con currently trying to get her life back on track while on probation and working for a car dealership in LA. Cassie went to prison after a burglary in a Las Vegas casino went sour. She did her time and came out trying to be straight. Unfortunately, she has secrets, and she desperately wants to leave the country. For that she needs money. A lot of money. She takes another job in Las Vegas. It also ends badly, and now she's on the run from Jack Karch, a pretty scary dude who likes to bring folks out into the desert, shoot them dead and bury them. One of the more interesting parts about this book is that none of the characters are what we would traditionally call good. They're pretty much all ex-cons, killers, or other folks who fracture the occasional law. Cassie is what we might call an anti-heroine, as after all, she does rob people of their winnings in Las Vegas. Despite that, she's still human and feels love and loss like anyone else. The book holds several surprises, some of which are revealed in the other reviews here (bad form, people!). The author deliberately holds back certain details until the right time, which makes it an excellent piece of storytelling.
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Summary: What A Disappointment!
Review: I love Michael Connelly's books most all of the time...his Harry Bosch mysteries are wonderful. But this nightmare is the worst Connelly book I've read, let alone being one of the worst books I've read, period! What a mess! None of the characters are likable so it was tough for me to decide who I wanted to see killed- off at the end. These people have no morals or integrity. It's really sad that Connelly makes Cassie Black, the main character, a hero of sorts. This screwed up woman is willing to kidnap her own child and shoot people at random as a way of working through her anger and sadness at getting arrested six years before and losing her lover and child in the process. The book started out with promise, but as it progressed one mess just turned into another unbelievable mess, and so on....and so on....and so on.... "Void Moon" reads like a bad made-for-tv movie. It's so predictable and the storyline is absurd. Don't bother with this one. If you want GREAT Connelly read "The Poet" or "Angel's Flight."
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Summary: fdloose@bellsouth.net
Review: This is one of the weakest books I have read in quite some time. Predictable, calculated, unimaginative. I think M. Connelly is going downhill. Void Moon reads like a television show, is paced like a television show, and would probably make a good "B" television show. But, an exciting book it ain't. From the beginning you know who the little girl is and how she will come into play plot wise. I expected better. This is the last hardback I will buy from M. Connelly. And if the next Bosch story has as weak an ending as Angel's Flight, it will be the last Connelly book I buy, period. However, if you are in to mindless romps, you will probably enjoy Void Moon. If your tastes run a bit more discriminating, do yourself a favor and skip this one.
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Summary: Fast paced, unusual and one of his best!
Review: Michael Connelly hits another home run as he temporarily leaves Harry Bosch behind and writes about the other side of the law. Cassie Black is a convicted felon who has sustained several major losses in her young life. First, she lost the love of her life, then she lost the child who was the product of that love. Then, she loses he freedom as she spends more than 5 years in prison for felony murder for her part in the death of her lover Max during a Las Vegas casino burglary gone sour. This book has all of the tension fans of Connelly have come to expect through the Bosch novels. His spare but incisive prose makes the reader want to get to the end of the story but then lament that it is finally over. He creates sympathetic and understandable characters and we feel for Cassie. We do not feel for the men who have hurt her and betrayed her as she tries to find peace and reclaim her daughter. How Connelly puts this storyline together is what makes it so successful. We want to know how Cassie will get out of her predicament and I cheered when I saw how she did. Like the rest of us, she is a flawed being. But in her case, there is still a sense of morality and rightness. In the end, Cassie choosese the "hard" right in place of the easy wrong. I recommend this book to Connelly's fans and those who have never read him. For those who haven't discovered the Bosch novels, this will be an unexpected treat because there is no Bosch to compare too. Connelly proves once again, that he is rapidly becoming "the" master (without peer) of this genre. Read VOID MOON and find out why.
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: Wow! Isn't Connelly a great thriller writer! I have never read any of his work before and I loved it! Connelly gets the reader straight into the action with the opening of Cassie and Max working together, as thieves who rip off casino gamblers, that win big time. Fast forward to 6 yrs later, where Cassie is in need of scoring some big dollars and she needs to work again, unfortunately for her, she rips off the wrong guy and so the story continues. You actually want her to get out unscathed - even though she is the 'bad guy' in this book. Usually, the author makes you rooting for the police, ME, detective, PI etc etc, but this is the opposite! I read this in 1 day as I couldn't put it down. It was a sensational thriller and is highly recommended if you are tired of the usual crime genre.
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