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Summary: Another Alex Delaware Adventure!
Review: Kellerman in BAD LOVE pens another story in the life of child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. This time the story is intriguing, and will make the hair on the back of your neck stand! Alex recieves a tape that screams bad love, bad love. Next thing he knows he's the target of someone! For all he knows it could have something to do with a symposium he co-orated, on or it could have something to do with the two little girls he is counseling after their father murders their mother. Join Alex in this extremely tantalizing, can't put down, keep you up reading at night book! Kudos Kellerman for penning another exciting Alex Delaware book, and for making me stay up all night reading it! You will probably spend your nights awake reading it too!
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Summary: Bad Love
Review: My first time reading anything by this author and also my last. This book was so not interesting and it was also boring. It went no where and it was very redundent, the dog over and over. I thought I was reading a book about a bull dog, it was just a no brainer? I would not recommend this book to anyone I know who loves to buy and read books as I do. I never give any of my books away however, I just changed my mind this book it now owened by a new reader?
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Summary: Bad Love
Review: My first time reading anything by this author and also my last. This book was so not interesting and it was also boring. It went no where and it was very redundent, the dog over and over. I thought I was reading a book about a bull dog, it was just a no brainer? I would not recommend this book to anyone I know who loves to buy and read books as I do. I never give any of my books away however, I just changed my mind this book it now owened by a new reader?
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Summary: Kellerman always delivers a great story...
Review: My wife has been bugging me to check out Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series for some time. She thought that my insatiable habit of reading mystery novels would be satisfied by Mr. Kellerman's work. (my mystery favorites include the entire Perry Mason run, as well as Robert Crais' Elvis Cole novels) She was correct, I am now a huge fan, and I highly recommend them to you! Kellerman's Delaware series features a rich cast of characters, intelligent plot lines, and just the right amount of drama, comedy, and suspense. The main characters of Alex, Robin, and Milo (and to a lesser degree, the dog Spike) become familiar friends, whose adventures are compelling and exciting. Kellerman finds a good mix in advancing the story through detailed descriptions of characters or locations as well as engaging dialog. His ability to sweep you up in the action is reminiscent of Tom Clancy's roller coaster plots. I find that when I get to the last third of the book, I must keep reading to the end because I can't put it down! I have two regrets regarding Kellerman, however. The first is that I did not read his stuff sooner. The second is that I did not read them in order. If you decide to read Kellerman's novels, read them in chronological order, and your enjoyment will be even greater!
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Summary: Bad Love, Okay Book
Review: Not a bad read. This is the third Kellerman book I've read. I had trouble believing the plot in this one. Alex gets a tape and then spends most of the book trying to track down people that he can warn or that can help him figure out who the killer is. The problem is that nothing really earthshaking happens until the end. I don't think in reality anyone would go to so much trouble over a scary tape and a dead koi. I think there should have been something more real, like a murder, that Alex could verifiably connect to the tape before he marches off to find the killer. All in all, it was entertaining enough. There was not enough character development to get you to care about the victims. If your looking for something to give you the creeps or to get you "hooked", skip this one.
Read the Clinic if your looking for a good Kellerman Novel.
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Summary: Classic Delware entry
Review: The cassette tape arrives one morning in a plain brown wrapper with no return address. Alex Delaware, curious, puts it cautiously into his tape player, and a nightmare opens up before him. There is a long, soul-tearing scream, and then a child chanting the phrase, "Bad love, bad love, don't give me the bad love." Shortly after, he receives a mysterious phone call, and then confronts a cruel act of vandalism against him, and is forced to admit that someone, for some twisted reason, has him in their sights.
He desperately searches his memory for recognition of the phrase "bad love", and eventually links it to a symposium he attended many years ago, dedicated to the work of child psychologist Andres de Bosch. Puzzled about how this could possibly link back to his taunter, Alex tries to get in contact with some of the other delegates, and discovers a chilling and random series of deaths amongst them. This is the best Delaware book so far (I am slowly but dedicatedly making my way through the series.) It contains everything that makes Jonathan Kellerman books good. Plenty of psychology, his characters, his probingly analytical writing style (which, I must admit now, doesn't serve actions too well) and possibly the best plot he's dreamt up so far. Existing fans will love it, and newcomers to the series would do well to start at the beginning (When the Bough Breaks) and just look forward to this gem. Kellerman's plotting is fluid, original, and moves at very good pace. It's also wonderful to witness Alex as he tries to work his way into the twisted and distorted logic of a killer and find even hints of a possible motive. The only times when this book falls down are when, occasionally, his prose seems too detached, and there are a couple too many characters. Otherwise, this is an excellent addition to a good series.
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Summary: If You Hate Pyschobabble You'll Love "Bad Love"!
Review: This book is wonderful, great, a total phenomenon! It is not only a mystery that is superiorly crafted but it raises quite a lot of truths that our culture usually prefers to ignore concerning the whole psychology industry, the corruption inherent within it, and the fact that Americans tend to "canonize" therapists just for being therapists, whether they are good ones or not! Go for it! Read the book! It gives a voice to all children who've ever been a victim of an obnoxious, inept kiddy shrink!
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Summary: They don't get any better
Review: This book was so awesome. I read it in one night and became an instant Kellerman fan.
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Summary: Good book, but not one of Kellerman's best
Review: This is my third Kellerman book. It's generally pretty entertaining, but nowhere near as good as the other two I've read (The Web and The Clinic). As always, the Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis characters are a real treat, but this particular novel's plot is a bit on the dull side, and moves too slowly. And of course, to top it all of, you've got what Roger Ebert calls "The Fallacy of The Talking Killer," where the killer has the hero cornered, and only has to shoot the hero and be done with it, but instead chooses to tell a long, convoluted story of why he did it. It helps out the reader, but gee whiz, isn't there a more realistic way to wrap things up? Anyway, overall it was a fairly good read, but I highly recommend Kellerman newbies start out with The Web, or better yet, The Clinic.
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Summary: Tiresome,tedious, and over-complicated
Review: This is the second (and last) J. Kellerman book I've read. The plot is tedious, dragging on forever. There are far too many characters, none of them interesting or well-developed. I had a pretty good idea whom the killer was as soon as the character was introduced, but the story -- such as it is -- just meandered on forever. I had to skip ahead -- skip all the tiresome descriptions Kellerman muddles his book with -- to get to the end. Boring! And poorly written. I liked the dog, so the book gets one star from me. Give me Patricia Cornwell anyday.
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