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Summary: The end.... a shame!
Review: I still can belive the end ... a low budget Hollywood end ... better read Poe.
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Summary: Fast-paced thriller that you can't put down.
Review: An excellent story line that reads well and keeps you guessing until the last page.
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Summary: The best thriller I have ever read
Review: I would give anything to find a thriller I enjoyed anywhere near as much as the Poet. I cannot believe it has not been made into a movie! Even Michael Connelley's other books cannot compare to the Poet for me. It was a reading experience as phenomenal as seeing Silence of the Lambs for the first time. If anyone can find me a thriller that is as flawless as this one please let me know.
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Summary: Once I opened it, I honestly couldn't put it down!
Review: By far the best book I have read by Mr. Connelly and I have read all of them. This book moves so fast and has so many twists and turns, you would think you were on a roller-coaster. If you only read one book this year, it has to be this one! You'll never forget it!!
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Summary: Very enjoyable. Not quite perfect.
Review: If a fast pace and attention to detail without having to drown in specifics in a thriller setting is your kind of reading then give serious consideration to The Poet.The fast/slow/fast pace of the story bonds with a true investigative journalist's approach to these types of matters. The ending did not quite fit and although there were adequate clues through out the novel to second guess the culprit, the detail and history was not quite enough to be completely convincing. The romance between McEvoy and the FBI agent was handled realistically with a fitting end. Good work Michael. Very enjoyable indeed.
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Summary: Clever but contrived
Review: I recently read my first ever Michael Connelly book (Blood Work) and enjoyed it immensely. While this book is enjoyable enough and kept me interested I thought it was much more like hack work. I could see the ending coming and was disappointed when it unfolded as it did.
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Summary: Promising in places, but, oh, the ending!
Review: Seduced by the rave reviews, I got myself a copy of this. The first 100-odd pages were good and I thought I was on to a winner. Then it started to d-r-a-g, as though the author was under the impression that length equals quality and was cranking up the word-count just to keep the story going. Then the pace picked up again and we came to what I thought was a satisfying conclusion (the scene in the shop) where the baddie was duly unmasked. Not a bit of it! What's this extra chunk of book I see? Why, it's a totally unnecessary (and rather silly) additional twist to the tale, as if the author is trying to show us how clever he's been in fooling us all. Spoiled it. Spoiled it completely. Spoiled whatever merit the book might otherwise have had. This wasn't toying with the reader; it was just plain silly. If this sort of slipshod stuff is typical of Mr Connelly, then I don't see myself wasting time on any of his other books. A shame, because it promised so much.
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Summary: Quality Pulp!
Review: Well, if there is such a thing. Just the antedote to all the depressing fiction and memoirs I have been reading lately. I couldn't put it down and I had no idea who the culprit was, right up to the end.
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Summary: Unmissable!
Review: The Poet is a departure from Michael Connelly's excellent Harry Bosch series, and better too - fresher and less predictably politically correct. The hunt for the Poet moves at a blistering speed, and the greatest puzzle, how the killer gained the trust of the victims, remains a mystery until the very end. As others have said, there is probably just one twist too many at the end, but for sheer pace and excitement this remains an unmissable read.
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Summary: ending not credible
Review: This was a teriffic book until the final chapters, when the author tacks on a "surprise" ending that is almost entirely disconnected from the body of the novel. It read as if Mr. Connelly had run out of creative steam at that point, but felt the need to add a final twist to the story (an otherwise time-honored device). He takes a fairly well-defined character and completely changes that characterization in the final pages, essentially creating a new character with only the most tenuous link to his/her (I won't give it away) former self. It didn't work for me.
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