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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It pains me to give this only three stars, it really does, but after a solid rocking first 300 pages or so, I just cannot wrap my brain around the way that Strange does things with Potter & Little. The set up to let Granville Oliver kill those two is aborted because Strange has a crisis of conscience, so then what? They let them go? They take them home? They're both apparently arrested immediately afterward, so it's not like they ran like White, but Pelecanos doesn't say anything about how it all works out & I cannot fathom how it does. I'm also a little tired of Quinn's shenanigans, although I had a dream last night that he ended up sleeping with Stella even though he knew it was wrong; this is really neither here or there, but it just goes to show that it could always be worse. I feel like the ball got dropped on this a bit.
Really well-constructed - an unusual take on the noir murder mystery because the death in question doesn't happen until more than halfway through the book.
New author for me. A quick, but good read. Setting is Washington DC and a look at inner city life. Language is a bit raw, but realistic. I'd read another by Plecanos.