Rating: 
Summary: Dissappointing
Review: What can I say ? Extremely predictable and unrealistic.
Rating:
Summary: Dissappointing
Review: What can I say ? Extremely predictable and unrealistic.
Rating: 
Summary: Unbelievable plot and two-dimensional characters...a drag.
Review: With cardboard cut-out characters whose logic and motivation never mesh with this reader's life experience, and a plot that is hackneyed and unbelievable, this book was a chore to slog through. I could never quite bring myself to care about the protagonist or his problems, and the "mystery" was so ridiculous that I just didn't care it the killer was caught or not.
Don't waste you time on this one.
Rating: 
Summary: Obviously one of his best, but could be better
Review: Without any prologues, this book is a detective thriller story and Pearson has brought in some technological thriller elements, plus doses of adventure to "exhilarate" in a sense the psychological side of his book. The story is not a complicated one, but the elements are presented in a sequencial order, as the police investigation goes on, which is something good because the tempo is neither slow that a psychological thriller would be, nor fast that a script would be. It's also a two character story and this sometimes make people be complexed or accuse the writer(s) of non profiling. I would agree that the "villain" should also achieve the same or almost the same weight with his main hero, detective Dartelli. This is one of the mistakes of the book. The suportive characters are receiving a good attention, but not too much to shade the hero, who is the opposite of the lone wolf super hero we have been accustomed by movies, TV series, or other writers (e.g Sean Devlin of Higgins). Then, Pearson's narration is exact and very well laid, seeming that he has STUDIED Kellerman, and this is not bad. Affections are always nice for writers and Pearson is not copying (the trap with affections). As said scenes flow in their own tempo and have a lot of intensity inside that make the book flow fast up to a point. And here comes the second mistake of the writer: the last 3-4 chapters are a pure action blast, ornamented (in the good sense) with the technological thriller elements and this makes the book lose its continuity, while the last chapter is again in the psychological mood. Thanks Mr.Pearson for the nice reading you gave us, but please more integrity next time.
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