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Rest easy Robicheaux!

Revisado: 03-23-24

Don’t worry Dave, the intellectually brilliant Dory with an adolescent love life isn’t about to replace you. In fact, she isn’t even a real character. She’s a cliche, like just about everything else in this book. In fact, it’s the only thing that kept me reading on, to see if the next cliche could top the last. I wasn’t disappointed. If this book was supposed to be in-part comedy, at least it made me laugh - a lot! And the narrative! Absowlutely gawadowful. Scarlett O’ Hará in Cajun country? More guffaws.

To judge from the number of five star reviews there are a lot of folks who enjoy this genre and author. Okay. But if you are looking for solid mysteries with deep sense of place in south Louisiana, look to James Lee Burke.

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Steady drone is great - for an aircraft engine

Revisado: 02-07-18

Arturo Pérez-Reverte is one of my very favorite writers and he is at the top of his form in this book, so why take the heart out of it with a narrator who sounds like Jim Bodett doing a Motel 6 commercial?

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Ditto all previous criticism of narrator

Revisado: 01-28-18

The narrator showed no evidence of having practiced before narrating this book. And it wouldn’t have mattered anyway because he was terrible in every one of the ways described by prior reviewers.
What would be an improvement over this narrator? How about a parrot raised in a Spanish household.

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Blindsided by summary

Revisado: 11-19-15

I grew up in the 1950's in a town near Boston, so can understand at some level how tough it must have been to have a gay relationship in that time and place. I am male and straight, but as a 15 year old at that time was approached on various occasions by gay males both older than and the same age as me. I did not understand what was going on and the only explanation I ever received was that these individuals were "queer" and vaguely dangerous. "Gay" in those days for me and my peers was an alien concept.

Interesting though the main theme of the story may have been, it wasn't enough to overcome the fact that I simply do not enjoy reading about gay relationships. Had the summary of the book mentioned that a gay relationship was involved, I would not have bought the book. But the summary did not mention this, so I felt blindsided.

Having said this, I have no criticism of the book itself. Like opera, I can appreciate quality in its own right, but it is something to which I do not enjoy listening. The author's exploration of her central theme, her character development and her story line were all well done. So, I admire her work. I just don't enjoy opera.

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Not another vomit!

Revisado: 11-09-15

Does everyone really run out and vomit when they see or hear something upsetting?
Does everyone make love like they are slurping an ice cream cone?
Does every conversation sound like a trite soap opera?
Do twenty something people all equate pop psychology with wisdom?
They do in this book, which reads more like a cheesy, B movie screen play than anything you could call literature. Anyone who really liked this must have spent a lot more time watching TV than reading good novels.
As for the narrator, you'd expect someone with a Latina surname to do a lot better with Spanish accents than a generic foreign language "r" trill characteristic of movies from the 1940's. Or was that her Russian accent? And then there were her "ing" endings pronounced "ink" and "ong" endings pronounced "ong ga."
Cardboard characters, trite dialogue, annoying narrator. Don't darken your cloud with this one.

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