The Vanished Man : A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

Rating:
Summary: One, perhaps even 2, too many plot twists
Review: Three-quarters of the way through this novel, I thought that perhaps this was Jeffery Deaver's best. It really held my interest and I wanted to be reading it instead of working, driving, eating, sleeping, etc.

The characters were amazingly rich in detail. The story was one of those that had you learning something, guessing, edgy, and excited. This, as I said about three-quarters of the way through, is a great story, ... or so I thought.

There is no way the reader will have a chance to figure out the denouement, not because you are not smart enough, but because the plot twists at the end get kind of silly. It reminded me of that movie (wait, I have to look the name up on the Internet)"Murder by Death."

Still, if the last couple of chapters don't turn the reader completely off, it's still a good read. Remember, I gave it four stars.

My advice? Stop when it gets silly for you, because it gets even dumber. I wish I could give you the perfect page number to stop on, but I don't have the book anymore.

Rating:
Summary: The Idiotic Man
Review: Well this one does it...I'm finally completely over Jeffery Deaver! Ok, Ok, I realize that these books are alot like a Roller Coaster in an amusement park and I should just take them all at face value but I just can't help but find my intelligence constantly insulted. This book in particular is very much like a snowball of utter stupidity careening downhill, all the while expanding and growing until critical mass is achieved and we the reader are engulfed in almost non stop implausible nonsense. I know we're all supposed to just shut up and go along for the ride, but this plot is WAY, WAY over the top. Why would the villian need to kill such a large number of people and create such a complex diversion when it would have been 5 times easier to just go directly at his objective and get away easily. The whole story here is incredible nonsense. On top of that, all of the series central figures ALWAYS come out completely unscathed so why should we EVER believe they are ever in any danger. Oh, and while I'm at it...what is this enormous ax that Jeffery Deaver has to grind with Christians? Anybody who's introduced into any of his books that's announced as a Christian always turns out to be some sinister villian. This book has a classic example: back woods, virtually illiterate redneck white supremisist hunter, who also teaches sunday school while his wife home schools is, quite naturally, a vicious hit man who would have no problem killing children. Typical! Hey Jeff, could you please write a book with a Muslim or Buddist villian? I dare you!!