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A review by nightchough
Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy
4.0
I LOVED THIS BOOK. It's as good as L.A. Confidential.
It's absolutely gonzo and I mean that as a compliment.
Ellroy has a formula - and this is very much in that formula - but he plays with his formula in this book. Adding voodoo (!!!), and perhaps just as significantly, add Ellroy at least trying to have meaningful female characters.
Other nice touches were his treatment of 60s US civil rights conflicts, add Richard M. Nixon's private tapes.
I wouldn't recommend this as a first James Ellroy book though. It's the third book of a trilogy.
It's absolutely gonzo and I mean that as a compliment.
Ellroy has a formula - and this is very much in that formula - but he plays with his formula in this book. Adding voodoo (!!!), and perhaps just as significantly, add Ellroy at least trying to have meaningful female characters.
Other nice touches were his treatment of 60s US civil rights conflicts, add Richard M. Nixon's private tapes.
I wouldn't recommend this as a first James Ellroy book though. It's the third book of a trilogy.