I'm glad that this wasn't the first John Connolly's book about Charles Parker that I read. It was good, but the books that I have read, "The Killing Kind", "The White Road" and "The Reapers" was much better.
I guess all people react to stressful situations differently ... but the wanting to have sex with a seriously emotionally damaged man right after killing someone seems so off to me.
I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who doesn't enjoy the writers Stephen King or Dean Koontz, but with that said, I think Mr. Connolly ranks right up there in skill with those aforementioned authors. His writing is dark and graphic but it is fluid and hypnotic as well. This book isn't a light read ...
I tend to avoid crime series like the plague unless they are exceptional such as the Jo Nesbo 'Harry Hole' and Kate Atkinson's 'Jackson Brody' series, they have to be intelligent literary fiction for me to want to revisit a character again.So for this reason I sniffed at John Connolly's Charlie Park...
I am a dilettante when it comes to my tastes. I like to read here and there, delve into some genres deeply, take a break with a shallow dip in another genre, and just in general approach literature like it is a buffet of options. It keeps things interesting, but at times I wonder if it means I am lo...
Ah, you never forget your first.When I was surfing around on the interwebs trying to find a new book to pick up, someone suggested John Connolly’s [b:The Book of Lost Things|69136|The Book of Lost Things|John Connolly|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1170703577s/69136.jpg|1164024]. I nabbed it shortly ...
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