The Lock Artist: A Novel
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009LI2BGS
Publish date: January 5th 2010
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
My first Steve Hamilton, and it won’t be my last. While reading this novel, I started thinking about literary devices, namely telling a story backwards: telling me who the culprit was but not who was killed and why, jumping back and forth, and then slowly explaining the details. What draw me in ...
This is, without a doubt, one of those books that will have you grabbing every available minute to read. Winner of the Edgar for Best Novel, The Lock Artist functions as a coming-of-age tale, and an exciting thriller. Michael, the lock artist, has not spoken since he was eight, because of a trauma t...
Really interesting. Except that, of course, swearing is used in about every other paragraph...
4.5 stars.Let me start by saying that this is the first adult book I've read in awhile (though it is an Alex Award winner, so it has strong appeal to teens as well). It did not disappoint! The story, following Mike the safecracker, was unlike any I've read. The format jumps from Michael as a high s...
Wow. I picked this up off the to-read pile on a whim this morning - 6 hours later I'm done, having skipped lunch.This book just seems to have the perfect balance of everything - a caper, a teen romance, tortured characters, terrific pacing, absolutely no "throw the book at the wall" writing - well d...
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