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Summary: serial killers can be dull, too
Review: This novel got less and less interesting the closer I got to the end, the exact opposite of what a crime novelist should be trying to achieve. I think the main problem is the way he deals with the serial killer-- with the author trying to keep his identity a secret, we never really get to know the charismatic psychopath, and he remains a background character, an enigma.Second is the way the crimes are committed themselves. That so many people would willingly let someone carve poems into their flesh, even after the bodies begin to pile up, is ludicrous. There are other problems, too: too little forensic or investigative detail, characters that are caricatures, etc. I read his first four or five Jessica Coran novels, and this is a big disappointment compared with those early efforts.
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Summary: serial killers can be dull, too
Review: This novel got less and less interesting the closer I got to the end, the exact opposite of what a crime novelist should be trying to achieve. I think the main problem is the way he deals with the serial killer-- with the author trying to keep his identity a secret, we never really get to know the charismatic psychopath, and he remains a background character, an enigma. Second is the way the crimes are committed themselves. That so many people would willingly let someone carve poems into their flesh, even after the bodies begin to pile up, is ludicrous. There are other problems, too: too little forensic or investigative detail, characters that are caricatures, etc. I read his first four or five Jessica Coran novels, and this is a big disappointment compared with those early efforts.
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Summary: The worst of the Instinct series, simply godawful
Review: Words do not do justice as to how bad this book is. Seriously, is this the same Robert W. Walker? The first five books in the instinct series were AWESOME, the next two decent. But this one...[is not good]. The plot is secondary to Jessica finding herself and dealing iwth heartache and finding the strength to move on and...oh yeah by the way there's this killer out there that's not even bothering to worry about getting caught and he merrily piles up the bodies. Then the last hundred pages features a resolution so innate, ridiculous, and just plain horrible that finally I just slammed the book down once I found out who the killer was. And SURPRISE - it wasn't hard to figure out! The worst in the series by far, so verbose and jumpy at times (five paragraphs about Jessica's thoughts and feelings every three or four pages, as just one example - oh yes there are more) that it's literally a struggle to read more then five or six pages at a sitting. Don't bother with this [book].
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