Rage (Alex Delaware, No. 19)
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Author: Jonathan KellermanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-28
ISBN: 0345467078
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345467072
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Rage (Alex Delaware, No. 19)
Book Review: This one's a clunker
Summary: 2 Stars
I still have about 80 pages to go in this thing, but I feel compelled to write a review even if I don't know how it ends because I found this book annoying. This is my third Alex Delaware book. (I listened to Dr. Death and read Monster a few years ago) I picked up this book at my college's bookstore because I was sick of reading one of my textbooks and Kellerman seemed to be the "featured author" in the fiction section. This book has a nice beginning that got me hooked on the story, but it slowly disengages to the point where I found some of Kellerman's plotting devices comical and the excessive dialogue nauseating.
For those who don't know Alex Delaware is a psychologist who does consult work for the LAPD and Lutenant Milo Sturgis. Unfortunately in this book Sturgis isn't really a presence and disappears for pages at a time, only to reappear later with some relevant information to the case. That leaves the bulk of the work to Delaware. Suspects never want to talk to him even after he shows them his police consultant credentials. Then Sturgis' sidekick becomes a whiny manipulator, telling them he doesn't help the police that often which, 18 some novels later, is a lie.
Kellerman always seems to have Delaware probing people for information over a meal at restaurant, which I found funny. I kept waiting for one of them to say,
"Mr. Delaware what are you writing on that notepad? Am gonna end up in your next book? Be sure to remember that I only had one stack of pancakes not two. With strawberry syrup"
Alex consumes so much food in this book he should be weighing in at 250 pounds and enrolling with Milo in Weight Watchers. There are also many contextual references to rage in the book, which are obvious title puns.
Alex and Milo have long, long, conversations in this book that only complicate the plot rather than enlighten the reader. As they sat around making lightning fast deductions and slowly cracking the case, I found myself saying to myself "That's great but I don't know how the heck you came up with that."
Delaware has a new girlfriend in this book who is also a shrink, Allison and later in the book one of her patients plays Dues ex machina role in the plot. His relationship with her is pretty superficial. At one point he seems to indicate his only with her because of appearance, but I can't be sure because I haven't read any of the recent Delaware books and I'm not going to read any more. If I hadn't bought this book with my own money I doubt I would finish itt.
Delaware mentions that Sturgis is 63 in this book, so hopefully he'll retire soon and the LAPD will have no further use for his consultant work.
Summary of Rage (Alex Delaware, No. 19)
In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware?and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions.Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he?s emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk?once again?with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.
Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware?s suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay?and his eerie final words to Alex: ?I?m not a bad person??betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they?re worth killing for.
As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake?and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight.
Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form?orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.
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