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Big Disappointment!, Juil 19 2004
After waiting two years for this book to be published, I really expected more. Kinsey has become a different person from the sharp, independent lady that we have come to know, in her previous outings. This time, she allowed a paroled felon to call all the shots.... usually going against her better judgement. Reba is an out of control birdbrain, but Kinsey never challenges her...she just does whatever Reba decides. I am sure that I will buy the "S" book....I will just not be as impatient, for its release, as I had been for this one.
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Tepid, Juil 15 2004
If this book is any indicator, Sue Grafton is trying too hard to maintain her alphabet based series. In this latest installment the central character, Kinsey Millhone, says "In the passing drama of life, I'm sometimes the heroine, but occasionally I'm simply a minor character in someone else's play." That's a succinct description of this listlessly paced book. One of the subplots deals with Henry's (Kinsey's landlord) problems with both his love life and his siblings. When not trying to persuade Henry to deal with his problems head on Kinsey is starting to date a local PD detective named Cheney. By the end of the book Kinsey was unsure, and seemingly unconcerned, about the status of her relationship. I didn't care either. The central story deals with Reba Lafferty, daughter of wealthy Nord Lafferty. Kinsey is hired by Nord to help the newly paroled Reba get back on her feet (and, hopefully, stay on the straight and narrow). Old habits are hard to break and it isn't long before Reba is getting back into trouble. The pace of the book picks up in the last 100 pages when Reba and her former boss/lover start playing a deadly game of cat and mouse over the proceeds of a money laundering scheme involving a major LA drug dealer. By the end of the book all the characters seemingly come full circle and end up pretty much where they started. The journey was hardly worth the effort.
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"R" is for Restless..., Juil 15 2004
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...which I am more and more becoming with the Kinsey Milhone series. 15 years ago the ambling pace was welcome, as was Grafton's elegant, descriptive prose, which is still very much in evidence here. (Descriptive prose is one thing, but does anyone really know what pittosporum and eugenia shrubs look like?) There are some wonderful scenes (particularly a seduction over mac-and-cheese that's pretty hot -- and beautifully written) and vivid characters -- but it doesn't add up to much. Perhaps the problem is mine, that I've graduated to Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin, whose twisty, fast-paced, grittier works mooooove. It's the difference between a pedal-to-the-metal chase through city streets and a slow, meandering drive in the country. The drive may be pleasant enough...but it's not really going anywhere.
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Entertaining, but nothing new here, Juil 13 2004
Grafton offers up more of the same in this the 18th Millhone novel, which will probably be enough for most her fans, but was not quite enough for me. Over all it is an entertaining enough read, the characters are all eduring and well developed, and her descriptive prose is still entact, but I kept feeling like we were just going through the motions, Like watching another episode of Murder she Wrote (though this story is more of a romance then anything). For me the decline in this series is noticable, but I am sure the typical fans will still enjoy this book. My favorite reads this summer have been: 'Kill the Messenger' by Tami Hoage and 'A Tourist in the Yucatan' by James Brumfield.
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