The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
by Jeffery Deaver
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Author: Jeffery DeaverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-06-26
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: Absurd and unbelievable story, flat characters and 230 pages too long
Summary: 1 Stars
This was my first experience with Lincoln Rhyme; and likely last. I hate not finishing books, but this took its toll. The story was absurd, poorly written, and the characters one-dimensional. It is 630 pages long, of which at least 230 are redundant.
The good guys are super smart, (and probably have superpowers), which saves them every time the plot turns. I lost count of how many times the plot turns, but it is way too many times to be believable.
Stylistically, the saves (and plot turns) are so unreal that the author have to explain them every now and then. Thus, the style jumps from trying to be fast-paced, real-time to be a narrator style, telling this guy was actually thinking and doing that, and it actually turned out that this guy was actually doing that etc. Those passages are really uninteresting to read.
Somewhere on Amazon, Mr Deaver was described as an author of psychological thrillers. I honestly couldn't find a character in this book that moved me, sounded real to me, or made me care for her or him.
In one of the narrator-type passages where the authors probably felt he needed explain who the villain really was, this described the villains parents: "The couple didn't talk much, didn't do much. Every night after a quiet supper [the] father would gravitate to his books, [the] mother to her sewing machine. For familial activity they might settle in two separate chairs in front of the small television set and watch bad sitcoms and predictable cop dramas, which allowed them a unique medium of communication-by commenting on the shows, they expressed to each other the desires and resentments that they'd never have the courage to say directly. Quiet..."
With this psychological insight, we should then understand why the villain becomes supersmart and superbad?
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