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cerisecarrot's review against another edition
3.0
What a disappointment. Love the Peter Decker books, but this stand alone book was just weird. Worked it out after about 200 pages and then had to read another 200 pages! Not a crime story, but fantasy:
jimmacsyr's review against another edition
2.0
Enjoyable, with some interesting historical background. Took an aspect I had not normally associated with this author, and one I would have thought handled more realistically without detriment to the story. Still several twists make for a fun read however.
ncrabb's review against another edition
1.0
Rom Poe is a Las Vegas detective who has been assigned the case of a dead showgirl. Her death looks eerily like other deaths from the city’s past, and Poe digs in to better understand how she died.
His former girlfriend is a tragic creature married to a womanizer on the police force. She is a slave to her many OCDs and much more.
This is just a creepy book with occasional bits of interesting information. Apparently in an effort to sell more books, and she needs all the help she can get with this one, the author takes her little perfunctory digs at members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are superfluous digs that best that add little or nothing to the story. But there are bits of information here about the Nevada Test Site and its history that made the book not a complete and utter loss.
But mostly, I didn’t like any of these characters enough to care whether they lived or died supernatural bizarre radiated deaths. Poe is a badly flawed individual whose story ultimately did nothing for me, and hapless Alison with her OCDs and her conviction of mankind’s ability to transform into birds or wolves was just laughably dismissible. Had I known that this would be so filled with native American supernatural junk, I wouldn’t have wasted my life and time with it. I’m fascinated by books about open-air nuclear testing, and even now, my family is reaping the deadly harvest of that time in our history. But this book with its supernatural animal transformation nonsense and its heroes so flawed that they left me uninterested in their welfare doesn’t do much for me.
His former girlfriend is a tragic creature married to a womanizer on the police force. She is a slave to her many OCDs and much more.
This is just a creepy book with occasional bits of interesting information. Apparently in an effort to sell more books, and she needs all the help she can get with this one, the author takes her little perfunctory digs at members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are superfluous digs that best that add little or nothing to the story. But there are bits of information here about the Nevada Test Site and its history that made the book not a complete and utter loss.
But mostly, I didn’t like any of these characters enough to care whether they lived or died supernatural bizarre radiated deaths. Poe is a badly flawed individual whose story ultimately did nothing for me, and hapless Alison with her OCDs and her conviction of mankind’s ability to transform into birds or wolves was just laughably dismissible. Had I known that this would be so filled with native American supernatural junk, I wouldn’t have wasted my life and time with it. I’m fascinated by books about open-air nuclear testing, and even now, my family is reaping the deadly harvest of that time in our history. But this book with its supernatural animal transformation nonsense and its heroes so flawed that they left me uninterested in their welfare doesn’t do much for me.
caffeine_free's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
ewaldhorn's review against another edition
4.0
Rather enjoyed the book. It was a bit slow to start, but the writer ended up weaving it together in an interesting fashion.
krisrid's review against another edition
1.0
I tried, I really tried to like this. I just didn't.
I gave this to nearly the 200 pages mark which is a third of the way in. Considering that this is set in Las Vegas, you would expect it to be fairly exciting, wouldn't you, simply because of the setting if nothing else? It wasn't. I couldn't believe how slow-moving and plodding it felt. Maybe I just am not the right reader for the Kellerman approach. I know that normally the really gritty crime stories aren't my favourite, but I like a good murder story. This just really dragged for me.
There were some interesting components that seemed like they might be going somewhere, but everything was just way to slow for me. I couldn't stay interested in all the detail, which seemed excessive and unimportant, at least to me.
I also had a hard time connecting to any of the characters. Again, I don't mind broken, conflicted characters - and pretty much everyone in this book has issues of various sorts - but they didn't come across as sympathetic, just dark and fairly self-absorbed, and they all make some questionable, seemingly destructive choices that feel destined to end badly.
As I said, I didn't finish this, so very possibly things get more exciting, and the pace picks up, but I just couldn't stick with this one. It didn't hold my attention, I couldn't connect to the characters, and it just didn't feel like something I was willing to invest enough time to get through another 400 pages to see if it gets better.
I gave this to nearly the 200 pages mark which is a third of the way in. Considering that this is set in Las Vegas, you would expect it to be fairly exciting, wouldn't you, simply because of the setting if nothing else? It wasn't. I couldn't believe how slow-moving and plodding it felt. Maybe I just am not the right reader for the Kellerman approach. I know that normally the really gritty crime stories aren't my favourite, but I like a good murder story. This just really dragged for me.
There were some interesting components that seemed like they might be going somewhere, but everything was just way to slow for me. I couldn't stay interested in all the detail, which seemed excessive and unimportant, at least to me.
I also had a hard time connecting to any of the characters. Again, I don't mind broken, conflicted characters - and pretty much everyone in this book has issues of various sorts - but they didn't come across as sympathetic, just dark and fairly self-absorbed, and they all make some questionable, seemingly destructive choices that feel destined to end badly.
As I said, I didn't finish this, so very possibly things get more exciting, and the pace picks up, but I just couldn't stick with this one. It didn't hold my attention, I couldn't connect to the characters, and it just didn't feel like something I was willing to invest enough time to get through another 400 pages to see if it gets better.
tresdem's review against another edition
2.0
It was...okay. Kind of hard to get through at points and I wasn't really happy with the way that it wrapped up. Like, not really at all. Maybe it'll come together better if I reread it, but I'm not really driven to do so. The characters were interesting but there was no one particularly engaging and, for me at least, the mystery wasn't much of one. Anyway, I'd say it was worth one read through at least.
jessschira's review against another edition
Disappointed with this one. The story made weird leaps which made for choppy reading, none of the characters were likeable (or even relatable), and there were times it was downright difficult to tell one character from another. I have another F. Kellerman novel on my to-read pile, but after reading Moon Music, it'll be awhile before I get to it.
tresdem's review
2.0
It was...okay. Kind of hard to get through at points and I wasn't really happy with the way that it wrapped up. Like, not really at all. Maybe it'll come together better if I reread it, but I'm not really driven to do so. The characters were interesting but there was no one particularly engaging and, for me at least, the mystery wasn't much of one. Anyway, I'd say it was worth one read through at least.
aimee70807's review
4.0
A fun read, but like all of her books it also is full of real information. It isn't part of her Peter Decker series, so not Jewish lore this time --- instead, werewolves.
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