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billymac1962's review
5.0
If anything makes a great novel, it's character development.
The Weatherman has the most interesting cast of characters I've come across in a while. It's also a hell of a story. Someone is committing a murder once a season before a major weather event.
Very well done, keeps you guessing until the end, and the suspense is relentless.
A MUST READ!
The Weatherman has the most interesting cast of characters I've come across in a while. It's also a hell of a story. Someone is committing a murder once a season before a major weather event.
Very well done, keeps you guessing until the end, and the suspense is relentless.
A MUST READ!
jen_is_booked's review
3.0
Goodreads Synopsis: A serial killer is on the loose in Minnesota, snapping young women's necks with each change of the seasons. Within twenty four hours of the first murder, TV weatherman Dixon Bell, a hulking eccentric, warns his viewers that a tornado is about to strike. The National Weather Service hasn't called it, but Dixon Bell does because he sees it coming in his mind. Among all the complex and original characters in this astonishing novel, the shifting weather and landscape of Minnesota stand out - demonic, majestic, bizarre, magical. Dixon Bell is not the only eccentric on Channel 7's Sky High News. His alter ego is an investigative news producer named Rick Beanblossom, a Vietnam vet and Pulitzer Prize winner, who hides his napalmed face, and his feelings, behind a mask. Guided along the way by an unnamed police source. Rick is on the track of the serial killer. Then he is assigned an unlikely partner, Andrea Labore, a lovely and ambitious ex-cop turned TV reporter. The newsman and the weatherman start out as bitter rivals for this gifted woman. But an ambivalent friendship grows between them when Dixon Bell becomes a suspect in the weather-related killings and Rick Beanblossom sets out to prove him innocent.
My Thoughts: This was my first ever Audiobook and I do think it took away something for me. The story is an interesting one, but I think I need to go back and read it to truly be engrossed in it. That said, I will try other audiobooks, but maybe nothing this intense for now until I get used to it. Overall, I think it was a good story, it set a great tone and it was fun to hear them talk about places I'm familiar with being from Northeast Wisconsin. I also think had I been reading it, I would have found it to be very intense and more than a little creepy, the weather aspect was very interesting.
My Thoughts: This was my first ever Audiobook and I do think it took away something for me. The story is an interesting one, but I think I need to go back and read it to truly be engrossed in it. That said, I will try other audiobooks, but maybe nothing this intense for now until I get used to it. Overall, I think it was a good story, it set a great tone and it was fun to hear them talk about places I'm familiar with being from Northeast Wisconsin. I also think had I been reading it, I would have found it to be very intense and more than a little creepy, the weather aspect was very interesting.
jon63f07's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
ibeforem's review
3.0
I borrowed this from my dad since I blew through the last of the 4 books I took to Nashville on the day before we left. It was pretty good! You know me, I’m a sucker for a serial killer story. I’ll have to keep my eyes out for more Thayer books in the future.
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