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Coming Back (2010)

by Marcia Muller(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0446581062 (ISBN13: 9780446581066)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

series

Sharon McCone

review 1: Sharon McCone is back from being "Locked In" following a gunshot wound to her head. At first everyone in the office is tiptoeing around her and, of course, Mom is always anxiously phoning.Tracking down a killer and finding abducted friends seems an unlikely combination to help McCone return to full health, but it does the trick.As always, Muller has provided us with a well thought out mystery that keeps us on the edge. Gold Star!
review 2: Years and years ago, I discovered the Sharon McCone series. I enjoyed the character a lot...she was fun, independent & actually had a sex life (unlike so many other lead characters who are female, cough, Kinsey Millhone, cough). Sharon never had the relationship issues that are often given to female characters. I supposed t... morehat the authors think it makes the women interesting but I think it just makes them pathetic or whiny. I also enjoyed the fact that Sharon lived in San Francisco and was still kind of in the hippie groove. I loved her family (knocked up at 16 Charlene, Patsy with the three kids by three different men, badass brothers John & Joey, her singing Pa and long suffering Ma) and loved how she loved them.Stuff changed when Sharon left her sweet law firm co-op to start her own investigation business and that is when I started to lose interest in the series. Sharon became just like every other Baby Boomer as she acquired property & money. The way she and her now-husband call each other by their last names was and is irksome (who DOES that?!?). Then we found out that Sharon was actually adopted has a whole other family...why? Her brother in law got famous, her once wishy washy assistance married the rich brother in law and got rich and famous herself, Charlene married some rich guy, Patsy settled down & is successful, now the nephew is about to be a millionaire, and "McCone & Ripinsky" own a cottage, ranch, airplane, house in San Fran and who knows what else? I realize that things change and people grow and perhaps I should have stopped reading the series when she started her own business. I kind of liked the living on the edge Sharon, the lawyers who barely made ends meet and the big old house that some of them lived in (and they all worked in). I hate society's emphasis on "success"(always measured in terms of career success and income)and I feel like every character in this series sold out.I don't even remember the last book that I read, but I know it wasn't interesting or memorable. A few months ago, I was at a used book sale and saw this book for sale for like $4. I thought the premise sounded interesting and so I bought it. Now I want my four bucks back! (Sorry,I'm not a successful author or successful search engine designer or successful investigator and need to watch my money).Sharon is indeed recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. The whole time I read about her recovery, I kept thinking of Rep. Gabby Giffords and I just couldn't buy Sharon's recovery. DUDE SHE WAS SHOT IN THE MOTHERFUCKING HEAD!!! You don't just "come back" from that. But okay whatever...I put that aside. Still, the story was boring and just didn't gel for me. We kept learning about TRIAD and rogue CIA operatives and I just didn't care. I don't know the Adah character enough (but oh I know she's wealthy & successful because I'm sure she wouldn't be in the book otherwise) to give a shit about her being kidnapped. I didn't care about soon-to-be millionaire Mick and his new girlfriend (who I was hoping was someone involved in the whole scheme). I didn't care about the--wait for it--wealthy woman was the initial target (okay, she was rich because she sued after a horrible accident but still). Even Ted's sections were boring and he is usually an awesome character.Look, if I wanted to read about rich people, I'd read Mitt Romney's autobiography (I don't even know if he's written one but go with me here). I want to read about the old gang at the legal cooperative. I guess I'd better go and read the first 15 or so books in the series because I don't think I will be reading any more of these. less

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