Void Moon
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 0446609145
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Vision
Book Reviews of Void Moon
Book Review: Not too great, not too bad either
Summary: 3 Stars
Void moon may not be the one that you should really start off on. If you read "void moon" without having already read the other "Harry Bosch" detective series or the non-Harry Bosch novel "poet", you'd probably end up with the feeling that MC is not a very imaginative writer. Actually, it's far from the truth as here MC has deliberately wrote a down to earth novel which pretty much runs like a very standard movie thriller. In fact, even for a movie, it certainly is a very predictive story. This is not to say the book is bad, it's just that MC could have been a bit more imaginative with a little more twists and turns.
The Story is basically about an ex-con "Cassie Black" who earlier convicted on manslaughter charges (for indirectly being responsible for the death of her partner-in-crime/boyfriend Max Freeling) has just got out on parole due to her good behaviour and good intent to start over. But She is continuously haunted by her past. Max was her mentor and along with Max they were a great team pulling off robberies in casinos, specially targeting high rollers in Las Vegas who had ostensibly won large amounts of cash. For a reason I will not reveal, so as to not spoil the book, Cassie decides to do one last big con so that she can have the money to escape to Tahiti which she has been planning for quite long. This means she will be going back to the life of crime that got her in jail in the first place but she is prepared to take her changes for her last shot at her only surviving dream.
The book is about this last con gone wrong. And this con supposedly goes wrong because it happens at the time of "void moon" that is the time the moon is astrologically between two houses or in other words, inauspicious time. Cassie is told to avoid the void moon time-slot during the time she is pulling off the heist. This she is told by the brain-behind-the-plan-colleague who gets her this project in the first place.
After she pulls it off, she comes to know that she actually stole more money than they were counting on and this money was actually a high-stakes shady pay-off. This gets an assassin called Karp on Cassie's trail. Karp is the sort of guy man for hire who makes all your problems go away. From here it is a chase movie, where the karp is nearing Cassie and along the way a lot of people get killed. MC makes Karp kill almost anyone he finds on his travel tour leading to Cassie Black. I don't really think, a real assassin would draw attention to himself in this manner by just pulling off unjustified killings which have no purpose or are not totally mandatory to the purpose of the job at hand which for Karp is "to get the stolen money back and offcourse to get rid of Cassie + those directly involved" . There is a Predictable cliché ending with a cheap twist put at the end. But really, it didn't work for me.
No surprises here, just a very basic story. You can read all the other MC novels first. Afterwards, probably out of curiosity you can probably scan throught this novel, that's if you want to read every MC on the shelf.
Summary of Void Moon
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die.In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run--with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the change, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...
There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero's life history, whatever the author's literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly's police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, including The Poet and Blood Work, that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (The Poet was honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book, Angels Flight, with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly's already impressive body of work into new territory.
Void Moon traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It's not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn't satisfying, but... well, it isn't. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail.
With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging, Void Moon seems perfectly poised for the New York Times bestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly's stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for the L.A. Times. What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, the numbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we're not disappointed with Connelly's "vacation." --Patrick O'Kelley
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