True Detectives: A Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Book Reviews of True Detectives: A Novel
Book Review: Retire these 2 characters please!
Summary: 1 Stars
These 2 in "Bones" were bad but now they are just absolutely terrible! Put these two into retirement and bring back Milo and Alex and Robin. What is with the PC of this book. Half white /half back brothers..the hippie Mommie and now the PhD girl friend ,who just happends to be a beautiful black lady. This introduction of a interracial story line really has nothing to do with the plot of the book.
Well actually this book has almost no plot or story line!
Reading this is like reading GQ. Who cares what these two guys wear everyday????
As someone else said.Who is writing these books?
Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a huge fan of Jonathan Kellerman, and I really, really wanted to like this book. I just could not get into it. I actually stopped reading after about 1/3 of the book because I found myself feeling that reading it was a chore rather than a pleasure. I found I just could not make myself care about the characters. They do not appeal to me at all. The plot just did not capture my interest and I agree that it seemed overly complicated. I imagine authors sometimes get tired of writing about their usual characters but please don't use your faithful readers as guinea pigs for poorly thought experiments.Book Review: Not One Of His Best.
Summary: 2 Stars
This tale is complicated by lots of characters with the two main ones brothers who don't trust each other: one a private detective, the other a police officer, both working on the same case. I had a good bit of trouble keeping track of which brother knew what, had done what, told the other one what. I found it very confusing. Far too many descriptions of "fashion" clothes worn by the private detective...who cares? And there just seemed to be too many characters for the plot, some not at all well developed. Kellerman has written a lot of good, enjoyable novels; I don't find this to be one of them.Book Review: Truly forgettable
Summary: 2 Stars
Early Kellerman books were intelligent, well developed and fast paced ~ very different than his more recent offerings. In "True Detectives" he devotes more print and effort to describe food, clothing and sibling sparring than substantive content. It is rare that I set a book aside after reading only half of it, but this was one that merited the decision. Thin plot, shallow characters and too much pseudo-clever bantering to be taken seriously. Note for the editor: if you are going to advertise Purell, do not have your characters using it in 1979 ~ years before it was even invented.Book Review: Pretty good procedural
Summary: 4 Stars
This book follows a couple of mismatched half-brothers rather than Kellerman's usual characters who make only cameo appearances. While this procedural isn't bad, it is slowed down considerably by the detailing of just how much the brothers don't like one another. That fades toward the end, however, after they are forced to work together, so maybe if Moses and Aaron are forced to the forefront of another effort that won't be an issue. Still, the book is entertaining and mostly logical, something that doesn't happen in a lot of procedurals. It's worth reading.