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Bezig met laden... The Kindness of Strangers (1996)door Julie Smith
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Skip Langdon series is one that I usually enjoy, despite the fact that it was started long before I worried about reading series in order, and has therefore been read in a helter-skelter, out-of-order fashion, as books became available to me over the years. I generally find Skip a likable, believable character and I love the New Orleans setting. But this one was a disappointment. I did NOT like this book. I didn't like any of the characters (even Skip, who I usually like), I found the level of conspiracy hard to believe, I just didn't really care about these folks for much of the book. I almost gave up on it multiple times. I'm glad I stayed with it, because about 3/4 of the way through, I got drawn in to the point where I wanted to know how it would turn out. Perhaps it helped that, at that point, Smith wrote a hurricane into the story (of this pre-Katrina book). But she left some important matters unresolved (almost screaming "sequel" with the same baddie on tap). I do think there are aspects of this book which suffered from the fact that I was NOT reading the series in order. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Skip Langdon (6)
Julie Smith's New Orleans is not a city, it's a world--exotic, sweetly perverse, dangerously seductive. Nowhere else does politics make stranger bedfellows; and the approaching mayoral election is stranger than most, pitting the usual thugs and vipers against a seeming breath of fresh air--Errol Jacomine, a liberal-minded, civic-spirited preacher. The only problem is, in the opinion of Police Detective Skip Langdon, Jacomine is a psychopath and dangerous as hell. On leave of absence from the police force, Skip becomes obsessed with exposing the frightening figure beneath Jacomine's good-guy image. Immediately, an anonymous army of spies and hatchet men go to work on her, and Skip begins to understand that in opposing Jacomine, she is risking not only her livelihood but her sanity and possibly the lives of people she loves. Skip's instincts seem confirmed when the only witness to Jacomine's crimes turns up dead. Skip thinks there are more bodies buried in Jacomine's past, but it's the present she's worried about. And protecting one of her own against the preacher's evil sends Skip to the dark center of bayou country, where even the elements are her enemy. A deadly chase through the swamp during a fierce hurricane forces Skip to rely not on the kindness of strangers but on her own inner strength to survive. No other novelist so brilliantly sustains the mood of ominous tension or raises the heat index as Julie Smith does in her Skip Langdon novels. Of them all, The Kindness of Strangers tears most fiercely at the heart. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Felt like it took me forever to finish; I kept putting the Kindle down after a few pages at a time. doubt whether I'll rush right out to get others in the series.. ( )