The Web (Alex Delaware Series, No. 10)

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Summary: Jonathan Kellerman's Day Off
Review: I've become a good fan of Jonathan Kellerman's series of Alex Delaware novels, but if this were the first I'd ever read I would never have picked up another.While the old scenario of being trapped on an island with no supply ship coming in some time creates some suspense, I found the payoff of this novel unrealistic and wholly unsatisfying. Kellerman tries to presentt a complex villian, with conflicting motivations, but just ends up with a muddy character given to maudlin speeches. Then again...I *did* read all the way to the end and had to see how it all turned out. I should be so lucky to be able to write a 300+ page book that people would actually wade thru to the end! Everyone deserves a day off every now and then, and this was Mr. Kellerman's. Let's hope THE CLINIC, coming in January 1997 is a big rebound!

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Summary: Another winner in the Alex Delaware series !
Review: Johnathan Kellerman has hit it on the head, once again, in "The Web", another in the Alex Delaware series. Dr. Alex Delaware is a noted child psychologist with a habit for attracting the most dangerous and mysterious cases. This time he - along with his lover Robin Castagna - are on the tropical island of Aruk so that Alex can help an American scientist assemble reference material from his former cases. The object is to write a book or a formal paper, but instead Alex finds himself caught in the middle of yet another strange situation - the apparent copycat of a savage murder that took place on the island years ago. Can Alex find out the truth before the killer finds him ? This was yet another great book from Johnathan Kellerman. The characters are so real, and the situation so believable, that I just couldn't put it down! A MUST READ for all mystery fans!

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Summary: Pleasing, but not Kellerman quality
Review: Kellerman has written better but I did like some parts of the book. If you have not read a Alex Delaware book yet, don't start with this one. If you want to start reading Kellerman read another one of his books first then go to this one. I was partially dissapointed but I'll still read him. Those looking for Milo won't find much of him in this one. It just lacked the punch that other Kellerman novels had.

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Summary: A tropic ocean, a beautiful woman, an ugly dog, and death.
Review: Kellerman, a psychologist and author, provides recreation therapy for everyone in this well written thriller. Alex Delaware has it all - a comfortable life style; a warm and beautiful woman; and a professional reputation which earns him an all expense paid holiday in Paradise. At least it was Paradise, before the U.S. military moved in and left a legacy of death, despair, and destruction which has been hidden for years. Knowing what's expected of him, Kellerman blends suspense, humor, and just enough scientific facts to make it all seem chillingly possible. If you believe the stories about psychogenic drug testing on unsuspecting college students, this one just might seem too real to be fiction

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Summary: Not his best Alex Delaware book but good. Plenty of twists!
Review: Most recent in the Alex Delaware series. Alex and his significant other find themselves on a remote tropicalisland with little or no outside communications. Problem is (big suprise) people are dying under mysterious circumstances and, much as they would like to leave, they can't. That is until just after they solve the mystery. Nothing original but good steady plot. Moves quickly with lot's of colorful characters and spirited dialogue.

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Summary: you love it or you . . . I loved it!
Review: My second Kellerman book and I am hooked. I found his characters to be exactly that. In particular, I enjoyed the twists in the relationship between the island folks. Did have a sci-fi flavor but I didn't mind a bit!

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Summary: Good But should have been better
Review: Of all the books that I have read of Kellerman this is the one that didn't interest me like the other one. It has some suspense in it but not as much as the others. But how Kellerman can keep something so well kept until it is the right time to say it is amazing. how in the end everything just comes together.
From day one Moreland seemed like he had many secrets and he liked to play games with using quotes which at the time didn't make sense. But once Alex confronts Moreland that's when it all just makes sense. What Moreland does is just awkward. But he means to do good even when it affects him, physically and mentally. overall it was a good book

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Summary: Good But should have been better
Review: Of all the books that I have read of Kellerman this is the one that didn't interest me like the other one. It has some suspense in it but not as much as the others. But how Kellerman can keep something so well kept until it is the right time to say it is amazing. how in the end everything just comes together.
From day one Moreland seemed like he had many secrets and he liked to play games with using quotes which at the time didn't make sense. But once Alex confronts Moreland that's when it all just makes sense. What Moreland does is just awkward. But he means to do good even when it affects him, physically and mentally. overall it was a good book

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Summary: Stink!
Review: This book was absurd. There was no '0' or that's what I would have given it! A silly premise and an equally silly ending - totally low-rent and beneath the author. Blech and double blech. I can't say blech enough!

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Summary: Stink!
Review: This book was absurd. There was no '0' or that's what I would have given it! A silly premise and an equally silly ending - totally low-rent and beneath the author. Blech and double blech. I can't say blech enough!