3.7⭐ Fat fingered update. I mostly do Goodreads on my phone or tablet so my fat fingers are always hitting the wrong button and I'm rating books I nev3.7⭐ Fat fingered update. I mostly do Goodreads on my phone or tablet so my fat fingers are always hitting the wrong button and I'm rating books I never read, or putting books on want-to-read that I don't, really( my favorite example is a sex manual in Japanese, which l rated at 5 ⭐. I almost left it on but decided no, that would skew the rating. Yeah, that's the ticket!). In this case I bumped this book up a star and this is me fixing it. I remember liking this better than some of the other Bosch books, especially the latter, more repetitive ones....more
Fat fingered accidental update. So I'm restoring the original rating 3⭐ and adding a brief note. A middling book. The surprise ending wasn't, very. CoFat fingered accidental update. So I'm restoring the original rating 3⭐ and adding a brief note. A middling book. The surprise ending wasn't, very. Connelly's usual fast pacing and believable backgrounds add to the enjoyment. Unbelievable coincidences take away, a bit. Suspension of disbelief required = heavy....more
3.2⭐ Being disappointed with the recent formulaic, repetitive Bosch novels, I decided to go back to one of the earlier stories to see if I could recap3.2⭐ Being disappointed with the recent formulaic, repetitive Bosch novels, I decided to go back to one of the earlier stories to see if I could recapture the magic.
So Bosch is suspended and undergoing therapy for pushing the thoroughly unlikable Lt. Harvey Pounds through a window ( Sure! Happens all the time!). With some time on his hands he decides to finally look into the murder of his prostitute mother, 35 years previously.
As always, Connelly's slick writing propels you from one scene to another at breakneck speed and has you believing his character is simply driven and troubled by his past, not at all a sociopath, no sir! At this stage in the series, Bosch's total disregard for the law in pursuit of his villains hasn't yet become utterly unbelievable; that comes later. But his magical panty melting powers are at peak strength. He manages to insta-lust a mysterious (and equally troubled) artist, on a side trip to Florida, after just one meeting. Once again, Bosch scams witnesses or minor officials and assaults anyone he doesn't like, all without consequences. If all cops acted like Bosch there wouldn't be police forces at all, just very large and very well armed biker gangs.
But the story zips along to it's dramatic conclusion without really giving you the time to pause for a "WTF?" That's Connelly's trick. He's also very good at painting vivid and detailed backgrounds for this novel, so your suspension of disbelief in this case is not unreasonable, that also comes later. I suppose I did remember why I originally became sucked into Bosch's world and why I still read every book as it comes out. -30-...more
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