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| The Conspiracy Club
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Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2004-11-23
ISBN-10: 0345452585
ISBN-13: 9780345452580
List Price: $7.99
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When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, young psychologist Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover’s grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work at City Central Hospital–only to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn . . . and the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies. Now, the only way to prove his innocence and put his torment to rest is to follow the deadly trail of a modern-day Jack the Ripper.
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| Customer Rating: | Here's my review system--I score on four categories and average them together for the number of stars. The four categories are: character development (are the characters deep and complex, plot (is it interesting), voice (is the narration smooth and engaging) and cliche level (is it predictable.)
Character development: 5 stars--Kellerman is very good at getting inside the head of his characters
Plot: 4 stars-- It took forever but there was a nice twist or two
voice: 5 stars-- Very easy and pleasant to digest
cliche level: 3 stars-- The crazy serial killer and the non cop protagonist has been done a bit
and this one didn't bring a whole lot that is new
I like psychological thrillers and this one was pretty good. |
Droning
| Customer Rating: | | Audio Book review - It wasn't the worst book, but it was very long and droning. However, it was only 5 CDs long, and that is a rather quick read. Something about the narrator or maybe the lack of a gripping plot, made it feel much much longer. In the end it became oddly confusing and I kept trying to remember who all these characters are and what their relations were to one another. Only because it was so long and so full of holes and twists, it became almost boring and hard to pay attention to. However, I can see that Kellerman may be a good writer of other books, so I will give him a chance and pick up another audio boook. It was a good enough book that I kept listening to it. However, I kept listening hoping that something would happen and that all of this time would have a pay off. I was wrong. |
Original and full of holes...
| Customer Rating: | I am a fan of Jonathan Kellerman's other books (3-5 stars, the lot), but this book would get 0 if it was an option. The underlying plot makes no sense - a club of do-gooders who somehow identifies a serial killer (it is never explained how), but instead of doing the obvious they guide our hero to solve it - whilst the killer is carrying on killing other victims! Almost needless to say, when our hero eventually does identify the killer, he decides to take matters into his own hands (a poorly motivated distrust of the police is to blame) and gets saved in a typical Kellerman last minute shoot-out (my only serious issue with the Alex Delaware series...) Turns out his mistrust of the cops was misplaced - they end up saving his life.
Altogether a poor read - slow paced and a plot that is utterly devoid of logic. |
Just as good the second time . . . I think
| Customer Rating: | I was really enjoying my first read of a Kellerman novel about someone OTHER than Alex Delaware and his constant companion Detective Milo when, just as I got to the climax, I got a real shock: "Hey, I've READ this book before!" Sure enough, I distinctly remembered one small part of that scene and knew what would happen right after that. And nothing else. Not a single thing. And I'm still scratching my head about when I read it the first time. Still, it was quite a good read the second time, and that's a pretty good recommendation by itself . . . isn't it?
At any rate, this book was good enough to make me want to read more of Kellerman's non-Alex Delaware novels, such as "Butcher's Theater" and "Twisted" . . . if only to discover that I've read those books before, too.
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Fascinating Read
| Customer Rating: | This book is definitely a diversion from Kellerman's usual psych-thrillers. It has a slower pace, but is deeper and more intricate than many of his other novels.
The character development is most excellent. I was interested from the start and remained riveted until the end. The plot keeps you guessing and trying to figure out 'who dunnit', and just when you think you have it, Kellerman takes you down a different road.
I was thrilled with this book. It was unexpectedly good and very entertaining. For Christmas I gave it to two people who were also taken by it. |
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