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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Book Review - Dark Hollows - John Connolly

Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)
Title:  Dark Hollow 

Author: JohnConnolly 

Review: I have begun working though the entire backlist of John Connolly.  I read book 11 of the series and absolutely loved it.  Book one was a rambling mess that really should have been two books at a minimum.  Here with book two Connolly has narrowed down his plot to tell one story instead of many, but it really is a little too wandering to get there.  Essentially this book could have used a lot more tightening to tell the story in much less time.   

So it is great strides over book one, but nowhere near the quality of book eleven.  That is good though because I am getting a lot of back-story of the characters I was missing before. Plus I love the built in guarantee that each book I read is just going to be better than the last one.  Jon Connolly is a writer who has mastered his craft through hard work.  Work that we get to enjoy. 

So read this book to understand the characters and stick with the writer knowing your reward is coming.   

Thanks T Steven for this review


Publisher: Pocket Books 
Copyright: 2000 
Pages: 504 
ISBN: 978-0-7434-1022-9 
Quick Review: 3 Stars out of 5. 
Why I Read it: Working through Connolly’s entire backlist 
Where I Obtained the Book: Sent to me by the publisher 

Synopsis: Haunted by the murders of his wife and daughter, former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to his native Maine. But peace is elusive for Charlie as the killings of another mother and child put him on the trail of a murderer with connections deep in Charlie's own past and new evidence arises in the long-ago deaths of his father and grandfather.
John Connolly
Author Biography: John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he continues to contribute.

He is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States.

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1 comment:

  1. I read Connolly for the first time a few years ago -- The Lovers. It was very far out of my comfort zone, but I found that I couldn't put it down.

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