Street Dreams
by Faye Kellerman
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Author: Faye KellermanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN: 0446614041
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Vision
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Book Review: 2.5, the good and the bad of this novel
Summary: 2 Stars
I read over several of the other reviewers comments and I agree with some and disagree with others.
Quite a few people remarked that they didn't like Cindy Decker, I actually like the character. I think she's interestingly dynamic, in that she can be quite tough when she needs to be yet vulnerable. Her relationships are interesting and entertaining, her father and Jewish stepmother, those conversations, those glimpses are good.
However, I agree with other reviewers who found the racial tensions to be forced and distracting. I feel this was a blantant attempt by Kellerman to make her heroine seem more noble. A white red-haired beautiful police officer falls in love with an black Ethiopian Jew. That in and of itself is not the problem. It's her constant barrage of racial tensions, the oversexed pairing of the couple, Decker's lengthy "race" speeches. It all lacked nobility. It was an honest ploy by Kellerman to elevate Decker, and it's just bad form.
Secondly, was the fact that Kellerman, who expects the reader to admire Decker, has her give her gun to her boyfriend, whom she's only known a few weeks in a potentially dangerous situation, then directs him to lie about it and THEN, the most unbelievable portion of it all, she takes that gun, rolls down her window and fires aimlessly so that she will had gun residue on her hand in case they check. I absolutely could not believe that this author made her HEROINE do something so blantantly STUPID! She was in the city! She's not in the desert, she's not out in some isolated field, and she discharges her gun randomly out the window!! Are you kidding me?? I don't think the most ridiculously stupid police officer in the world could commit that offense. It was unreal. What was Kellerman thinking??
I disagree about several reviewers saying the subplots were distracting, that's real police work, they have to run down every lead and it often branches out and the reality of police work is interviews, interviews, interviews. That part of the novel didn't bother me or distract me.
There you have the good and the bad, in my opinion.
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