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Víctimas (2012)

by Jonathan Kellerman(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Nueva Imagen

series

Alex Delaware

review 1: I found Kellerman's style to be somewhat pretentious, but I suppose that makes sense when the main character is a psychologist. There are also a couple sections later in the book that suddenly switch from Alex Delaware's point of view to another character's, and I found it to be rather jarring since it only occurs once and doesn't seem to serve any real purpose. I did really enjoy Kellerman's descriptions, however, particularly of people, though you can definitely tell that he has a thing for wood grain. I found this to be an interesting read over all, though I didn't find it particularly suspenseful, nor did I bond with any of the characters.
review 2: A satisfactory read; tempted to 4-star-stamp it as a decent page-turner~ until the last 1/5 of book, which... more contained too many mistakes for this lay person to overlook.Although many reviewers note too much familiarity re main characters, its comfort reading for me. The longstanding camaraderie between Alex and Milo makes the storyline flow. Robin and Rick were not really involved; fine by me, since they are low on my appreciation list. Plenty of gory crime scenes for even the hard core thriller addicts. I could have appreciated the ending just fine, as it wrapped up and disposed of the bad guys in acceptable ways~ EXCEPT~ for the glaring mistakes that pi$$ed me off! One being: Bad guy has Milo in a head death grip, preparing to snap his neck. Alex to the rescue, kicks bad guy behind knee -gets no reaction... so what does Alex do? No, he doesn't go for a balls-kick, eye gouges, or reach in for a good balls-grab/twist. Foolishly, he simply kicks the other knee, same useless results.. Moving on to the tunnel, and the two horribly emaciated dogs, so weak they can hardly stand... we're told said dogs emerge from said tunnel. Fine, EXCEPT.. then we're informed said tunnel has a 10 ft drop down from opening, floor of which is accessible by a 10 ft ladder... Hmmm. So... two starved, ribbed-out weak dogs are exiting/entering this tunnel hole using a ladder??? Hey, they can hardly walk, remember!! (that just ain't a-gonna happen!) Then we're told there's like eight sacks of dried dog food in the tunnel...Hmmm again.. any starving animal ~or human~ would sure as heck availed themselves of that. OK.. Enough of mistake-grousing now. Sure, its fictional writing, but still... a bit of common sense is always welcome. less

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