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A review by billymac1962
Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay
4.0
I was very excited to plunge into the Promise Falls trilogy. It was only three books ago that I loved and devoured Trust Your Eyes, and during the next two books I had been reading, all I could think about was getting back to Linwood Barclay again.
A few of his previous novels had already been set in this little town, and there were some references in Broken Promise to some of the characters' pasts from the events in those past novels. Even though I wasn't familiar with what these events were, it didn't detract from the story.
Halfway through the novel though, I checked Barclay's website to see a list of all novels set in Promise Falls.
There were only two previous ones, Never Look Away and Too Close to Home, and embarassingly enough, I had read both of them!
Looking back on the synopses of those novels, the events did start to come back to me, but I had forgotten the names of the characters. So I didn't feel too bad.
Anyways, this was another fine read from our Linwood. Very good characters and dialogue push the story forward once again, and crazy things happen in this little town.
I'm giving this one four stars as this is an incomplete story thus far. I may return and rate the series as a whole once I'm done.
If you're familiar with Linwood Barclay already, you know what you're in for, and as always, the less you know going into his stories, the better.
If you're new to the guy, I highly recommend Trust Your Eyes as a standalone sample of the man at the top of his game.
This is shaping up to be terrific. I'll be back to Promise Falls, soon.
A few of his previous novels had already been set in this little town, and there were some references in Broken Promise to some of the characters' pasts from the events in those past novels. Even though I wasn't familiar with what these events were, it didn't detract from the story.
Halfway through the novel though, I checked Barclay's website to see a list of all novels set in Promise Falls.
There were only two previous ones, Never Look Away and Too Close to Home, and embarassingly enough, I had read both of them!
Looking back on the synopses of those novels, the events did start to come back to me, but I had forgotten the names of the characters. So I didn't feel too bad.
Anyways, this was another fine read from our Linwood. Very good characters and dialogue push the story forward once again, and crazy things happen in this little town.
I'm giving this one four stars as this is an incomplete story thus far. I may return and rate the series as a whole once I'm done.
If you're familiar with Linwood Barclay already, you know what you're in for, and as always, the less you know going into his stories, the better.
If you're new to the guy, I highly recommend Trust Your Eyes as a standalone sample of the man at the top of his game.
This is shaping up to be terrific. I'll be back to Promise Falls, soon.