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Summary: What People Are Saying about BIG RED TEQUILA
Review: Hey folks, here are some recent reviews of Big Red Tequila. Hope you enjoy the book . . . "A stand-out! What makes this a truly worthy debut is Riordan's voice. Hard to escape calling it hard-boiled
Tex-Mex but that's what it is. You can almost feel the summer storms rolling over South Texas." [Publishers Weekly, starred review] "You couldn't find a better book to curl up with on the beach, or on the porch of a mountain cabin, or in your backyard hammock. Grab a copy!" [The Purloined Letter] "The at-loose-ends son of a murdered sheriff returns to River City because his old love has called. Lots of San Antonio color and detail." [The Dallas Morning News] "Lots of local color and a bit of the fantastic. Tres Navarre . . . is a tai chi expert and PhD English Major . . . sort of a well educated Travis McGee. I enjoyed the heck out of the book." [Dillo Texas Educators List] "Folks who enjoy Parker's Spenser will like this one." [DorothyL]
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Summary: quirky, smart mystery
Review: I first read this book several years ago in manuscript form when I was working as an editorial intern at William Morrow. Of all the books I read that summer, this was the ONLY book that I ever recommended to the editor I worked for. Guess they missed out on this one! This is a quirky, smart mystery. My only complaint was the name of that cat--is it still Robert Johnson? I hope the author changed it!
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Summary: better than a 2,000 calorie dessert!
Review: i just read this book for the second time in as many days. this guy has a real gift for writing, from the snappy dialog and wry characterizations to the description of his old hometown. the plot (rescuing an old girlfriend from the bad guys who turn out to be a little too familiar for comfort) was maybe a bit predictable, but the writing was so stylish that it didn't matter. i loved tres, his gutsy discipline and his unwillingness to back down from anything, and i'm hoping to hear more about robert johnson, his feline sidekick, in the next book. garrett provided an interesting undertone as the older brother who occasionally overloads on reality. altogether a very slick, quick read. well done, mr. riordan!
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Summary: Painfully Average
Review: I wanted to like this book---I really, really did, because I've read books similar to this and enjoyed them. Unfortunately, though, I stopped reading Big Red Tequila after 50 pages and never picked it up again. Everything about the book is just too, too hackneyed---the plot, the characters, the jokes and one-liners from the wise-cracking main character---they've all been done a million times before. I felt like I had already read this book just because everything in it was so unoriginal. There were a few things that made me chuckle, but I just can't invest the time it would take to read 400 pages in something so average and uninspired. From what I understand, Riordan's knowledge of Texas culture is dead-on and that might be one thing that draws certain readers to this book, but it wasn't enough to keep me reading. Hopefully the rest of the books in this series are better, but I'm not sure if I'll ever take the time to find out because there are so many other great authors out there.
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Summary: For Texans Only
Review: I'm definitely with "Tedious at Best" more than I'm with all the high-flying patriotic Texans on this book. Very average. For fun mystery novels, Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben are much more fun. I think you have to be a fanatical Texan to understand what the hype is about with this guy. Lots of cliches and mediocre dialogue at best.
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Summary: Big, read, and intoxicating.
Review: It's a big book...lots of pages, lots of characters, and lots of Texas lore and description. Lots of action, too...fights and bullets and druggings and cracked bones and teeth. And a complicated plot, with motives tripping all over each other.Like the setting, this novel is so big it's almost overwhelming. So here's how you read it: one beautifully constructed sentence at a time! Go slow, savor the descriptions and the characters and the twisty plots. It's a big book, and a fine one. I recommend it.
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Summary: Big, read, and intoxicating.
Review: It's a big book...lots of pages, lots of characters, and lots of Texas lore and description. Lots of action, too...fights and bullets and druggings and cracked bones and teeth. And a complicated plot, with motives tripping all over each other. Like the setting, this novel is so big it's almost overwhelming. So here's how you read it: one beautifully constructed sentence at a time! Go slow, savor the descriptions and the characters and the twisty plots. It's a big book, and a fine one. I recommend it.
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Summary: A yuppie's cliched view of the Alamo City
Review: It's not so much that Rick Riordan gets so much terribly wrong about San Antonio and it's people. It's that he does it in such a cliched and stereotyped manner. The mystery, plot-heavy and carried along by leaden one-liners and semi-tough-guy talk by the hero, doesn't stretch the imagination much. Particularly when he laces it with Spanish idioms that owe more to Cuba than Mexico. You can forgive streets that don't truly intersect, "barrios" that are quiet, middle-class neighborhoods and a tour of the city that reads like a tour of those "safe" samplings of San Antonio's Latino heritage favored by the upwardly mobile elite. But to depict Latino characters in such broadbrush caricatures is deplorable. In Mr. Riordan's San Antonio, barrio bars are all "cantinas." Latino men largely exist to drink heavily, smoke copious amounts of dope and laugh at death. and beat their women. Elderly Mexican-American women are overweight faith healers! . It would have been nice to read about some flesh-and-blood character rather than these cardboard illusions straight out of 1950s Hollywood. Mr. Riordan has the occassional flash of humor and style that promises something better down the line. But this book is as authentic a view of the light and shadows that haunt San Antonio as the annual event sponsored by predominently Anglo powerbrokers in which the women don festive Mexican-style dresses and everyone shouts "Viva Fiesta!."
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Summary: Parrothead alert!
Review: Jimmy Buffett fans be warned, don't miss this book. The author is obviously "one of us" and you'll find plenty to enjoy in this novel. The main character's older brother, the Mycroft to his Sherlock, if you will, is a committed Buffett fan, and the Buffett references are sure to delight you
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Summary: A MUST read book...
Review: Loved it loved it loved it !!!!! This book was fast paced and interesting throughout. All of Riordan's characters believeable and exciting..
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