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Wow Barry, a month with all three massive books in Greg Iles’ Natchez trilogy. Good books all three, I wouldn’t call myself a major Win fan either, but I do really look forward to reading it. Nice month. Your post reminded me I forgot to grab the March Kindle First free book, and I lucked out to grab A Deadly Influence on the last day.
nice month, barry. i can't believe you hadn't read the iles' books!
Good month! I've always been a fan of Win's. Guess I've always had a thing for men who "stretch" the morality code, as it were. Win finally got me out of my reading funk!
A Deadly Influence was well done considering the unlikely cult connection.
Ditto on the "what, you read those three Iles books in one month?!" For kicks you can go back and read our comments, we group read them all. Not to go all political on you, but not surprising that justice may not get served given the "full circle" moment we seem to be in now regarding civil and voting rights.Two hostage negotiators, one of whom has 10 adopted children and a wife dying of cancer. Wow.
Wow I'm super impressed that you able to read all 3 Iles books plus others. It took me most of Jan to read Natchez. I haven't tackled the other 2 yet. Not sure what it says about me but your review of Elevator Pitch made me laugh...now I want to read it.
Dawn wrote: "Wow I'm super impressed that you able to read all 3 Iles books plus others. It took me most of Jan to read Natchez. I haven't tackled the other 2 yet. Not sure what it says about me but your review..."Ok, this made me look back at Elevator Pitch and I agree. Sigh. Reserved it from the library.
Barclay is at his best when he does not take himself too seriously. (and Carol, you have to read something)
A Joe Pickett novel. Not raging against the system now, Joe leads a hunting party with a “Zuckerberg” type personality on a hunt, but the woods are filled with those that would do them harm. (A)
Natchez Burning: Greg Isles
A Masterpiece, even if he needed 800 pages to do it. Stories of the old south, in the worst days of racial inequality really make my blood boil. This was no exception. In a large sense, none of these tales can end with justice, because there was too much evil for justice to have ever prevailed. (A)
The Bone Tree: Greg Isles
WOrking my way through the Natchez trilogy so I can return book 3 from whence it was loaned. Same characters in the deep south, same sense that real justice can never be obtained, but there can be victories. Former DA Penn Cage still seeks justice for events off the Civil Rights era. (B+)
Mississippi Blood: Greg Isles
Final book of the Natchez trilogy. Perhaps a few things left unresolved, but an epic (youcan read that as “long”) tale of the clash of the old South with the new. A tale of love, and sort of justice. (B+)
Step on a Crack: Patterson/Ledwidge
First book in the Bennet series, which is now being written by James Born. Figured I might as well start at the start. Bennet, a New York detective finds himself as the lead negotiator in a big hostage case. At home, he is trying to raise his 10 adopted children while his wife is dying of cancer. (B+)
Elevator Pitch: Linwood Barclay
Thriller. Police chasing a domestic terrorist who uses elevators to kill his prey. Some nice characters, just don’t get too attached to them. (B+)
A Deadly Influence: Mike Omer
An Amazon First read, and not bad at all. A hostage negotiator who is also a cult survivor, has a case close to home when the son of another cult survivor is kidnapped. (B)
Deep Strike: Rick Campbell
I might not have even known about this guy, had Sherry not invited me to hear him talk at the bookstore she works at. The author, like mne, served on submarines, with him more on the weapons side, and me on the engineering side. We both had to learn to fight a submarine though. The underwater action sequences are good and realistic, some of the spy vs spy stuff is a bit glossed over. (B)
Goodbye to the Dead: Brian Freeman
10 years ago there was a murder. 10 years later it gets solved. (B)
Win: Harlan Coben
Win was never one of my favorite characters, he was sort of 2 dimensional, and to make him a protagonist, needed to be filled out a bit as a person. Of course he is a filthy rich person with insane fighting skills, but here, must work to solve a mystery or two. Maybe there is a moral lesson or two buried in the plot.(B)