Carr once again does a great job at transporting the reader to a very believable depiction of New York around the turn of the century.

While I don't think this was quite as good as The Alienist, it is still very good. The characters and dialogue are both interesting and well written.

The biggest problem that I had with this book was Stevie using "what" in place of "that".

If you liked The Alienist, I'm sure you'll enojoy this as well.

I don't know enough about the period that The Alienist is set in to know whether or not Carr's picture of New York at the time is accurate or not, but the important thing is that he makes the reader believe that it is. This book was very well written and it really makes the reader feel like a part of the story.

A friend recommended this to me or I never would have read it. This book is definitely worth reading.

I just picked this up one day at the book store because I was looking for something different. I was not disappointed. The Lieutenants was very interesting, and well written.

This wasn't a "page-turner" where you just had to find out what happened next, but the characters and situations were so engrossing that it was a very quick read anyway. I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. I will probably read at least the next book in the series, if not the entire series.

I would recommend this book even if you are not a big fan of military fiction, and if you are, then I'm sure you'll definitely enjoy it.

I have never read a Western before, and probably don't want to ever again because there is not much chance that it could live up to this story.

This story has it all, action, adventure, comedy, romance, sex and violence. The characters are all very well done. The contrast between Gus and Call is fascinating. I couldn't put this book down. Great book!

This is much better than his last few legal thrillers (The Summons, The Bretheren...), but I didn't like it as much as A Painted House, and it's definitely not as good as many of his earlier novels. But, I really enjoyed reading it. The story is fast-paced and interesting. The characters are well written and likeable.

This reminded me a little bit of The Rainmaker with the inexperienced newcomer, shady characters, big corporations, and big, big money. The story seemed a little unrealistic, but that may just be because I don't live in the world that it is set in. Also, there were a couple of loose ends in the story that were not resolved to my satisfaction, but nothing so important that it would ruin my overall impression of the book.

If you're a Grisham fan, I'm sure you'll enjoy this.

I finished this book after many trips to the library on my lunch break because I was too embarrassed to check it out and have people I know see me with it. Despite a lot of lip service that the protaganist pays to being a "foot and shoe fetishist" and not being interested in the shoes without the feet, his actions make it clear that it is the shoes that are the focus of his admiration, and the feet are not much more than a means to display the shoes he finds so compelling. I mean, he has an entire collection of shoes, he steals shoes from women who leave them in public.

What plot there is in the book is flat, very poorly developed, and all too conveniently wrapped up. While there is much exploration of the main character and his interests and motiviations, there is little or no depth to any of the other characters in the book, especially Catherine, whose feet the protaganist is smitten with. However, that may be intentional by the author because it is her feet, and nothing else about her that so transfixes the protagonist (I don't think I ever caught his name). Also, there is a lot of historical garbage about feet and fetishes that is superfluous, and often simply disgusting. There is a very small twist at the end that I thought was fairly interesting, but it didn't make up for the near complete lack of any attention to plot development.

All in all, if you have a shoe fetish, you'll probably find this book very compelling just because of the fetish aspect. If you have a foot fetish, you'll probably find it interesting for the same reason, although it's probably not exactly what you might expect. For anyone else, you'll probably just think the whole thing is strange.

This book was terrible. The characters were lousy and I didn't care about any of them. The story was slow and boring. And the science was just too much. I know, it's supposed to be "hard" science fiction, but if you like it that hard, I'm sure that there are some science textbooks out there that would have a better story and much better science.

This book was ok. I liked the premise and the plot. But the characters were a little thin. I never really found much to identify with any of them. Also, the slang and culture in the book seemed to made up and forced. Because of this, it was hard to read at some points. I'll probably read the next one in the series, but if there isn't much improvement, I might stop there.

I didn't know if this would be good, like the Reality Dysfunction, or bad like the sci-fi mysteries from Peter Hamilton. I was happy to see that he had continued with good technological science fiction. The technology in this book, as in the Reality Dysfunction is very well presented, and seems very believable. Also, the cultures and characters are very well developed and interesting. And if that wasn't enough, there is an interesting twist at the end that I didn't see coming.

I don't normally read short stories, but I liked the summary that I read of the Langoliers, so I read this book. The Langoliers was pretty good, but it ended up being the next story that I really enjoyed. Secret Window, Secret Garden was very good. The other two I didn't like much, the Sun Dog, especially, I had to struggle to finish. I would definitely recommend it for the first two stories, but the other two bring down my overall impression.