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La Hora De Los Caballeros (2013)

by Don Winslow(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Martinez Roca

series

Boone Daniels

review 1: Rock solid effort from Don Winslow.As always, I like the SoCal lifestyle, setting and lingo. The prose is lyrical cool, which is always a plus.The only problem is the story fizzled out in the second half. Enemies were introduced too late and disappeared too fast. Showdown included a lot of Deus Ex Machina. The author seems to be a pantser, but I'll still read his upcoming stuff, especially because of the prose.
review 2: Very entertaining read. If you liked Dawn Patrol, you will enjoy reading this. It is the sequel once again following surfer/private eye, Boone Daniels through the underbelly of San Diego. Don Winslow's style is great and fun as usual. However, 50% of the plot is based on something totally unbelievable. Boone is somehow convinced to work on defe... morending the person accused of murder a friend and mentor. There is no way he would have. Especially after ever single one of his friends asks him not to. The reason he gives is that his mentor (the victim) would have wanted him to. But at no point does it ever seem the kid is even remotely innocent. Instead Boone ruins all his friend ships to reduce some punks jail sentence from 30 years to 10, just because he wasn't as guilty as it seemed initially. Stupid. Not believable. Infuriating at times, and not in a good way where you get mad at characters but you are supposed to, in a way where you are mad at the author for coming up with something so weak. Hence two stars, despite the 4 star enjoyment once you just get over the stupidity. less

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