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...
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...
This book was great! Five stars for sure. It was such an intriguing story line and main character. The main character can't speak and we don't find out why until the very end, which all adds to the intrigue. The protagonist's traumatic past really had me googling to find out if there are really pe...
I liked this book well enough I suppose. I thought the protagonist, Michael, a teenage boy with a gift for unlocking nearly everything, was a well fleshed out character though I found him to be a little too much the "reluctant safecracker" for my tastes. Michael is unable to speak since a traumatic ...
For the most part I thought this was a pretty good audio though I did not think it was as great as seemingly everyone else who has read it (including the Edgar voters). I liked the first person narration and the structure of the story but felt it could have been pared down quite a bit. My audio do...
Steve Hamilton is a dynamic, under-rated author. I absolutely love his Alex Mcknight books. This is either a stand alone or first in a series. I am not crazy about this book though. It is def. not my favorite of his. I kind of feel that it was "forced" and I found almost every character in the book ...
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