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Summary: A refreshing change
Review: I have also read all of Kellerman's books and found this one to be a refreshing change from his Alex Delaware characters. While I enjoy them, I feel that we know very little about them except in the context of their work. I often find myself wishing I know more about relationships. Why are they still together after all of these years? The characters in Billy Straight were fleshed out much more and in a shorter time. I want to know more about them. I think there is plenty of unfinished business for another book. On another note- Isn't it interesting that both Faye and Jonathan Kellerman chose to depart from their familiar casts of characters in their last books? Makes one wonder if it was a mutual decision or just serendipity.
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Summary: Laughable
Review: Don't bother reading this book. It was my first and last book by Kellerman. The characterisation was laughable. I don't think the street kid would have survived for more than a couple of days on the streets, if such a character as Billy could ever come to exist in the real world, that is. Billys character is a joke, at least to me. The book might provide you with a few hours of distraction from the real world, but don't expect anything deeper than that.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: I have read all of Kellerman's books. This by far is one of the worst books I have ever read. Could not even finish the book. Please bring back Dr. D.
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Summary: Totally disappointed
Review: I love Kellerman. I have read all of his books - but this is pretty lame. Too much time spent trying to write like a tough cop, and the pitiful 'cameo' of Alex Delaware at the end seems like a ploy to suck in the loyal following to read this thing. I usually finish a Kellerman novel in under 24 hours. This took weeks, because I just couldn't find enough interest to keep picking it up. I had to re-read "Over The Edge" (my favorite Delaware novel) just to keep up my faith in the author. Better luck next time.
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Summary: A new detective with a fresh approach.
Review: I enjoyed this novel a great deal more than the last two I read:- The Web and The Clinic. I think perhaps Kellerman is getting a bit jaded with Alex Dellaware and needs to write about someone new. He has stayed with the child psychology angle, but treated it in a different way. His new detective is interesting, and I look forward to more Patra in the future. I also enjoyed The Butchers Theatre. Maybe a rest from Dellaware, and a return in a couple of years would be a good thing.
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Summary: Kellerman's first disappointing book
Review: I love Kellerman and have read all his books but this is the first one that I have not enjoyed. I did not like the writing style and found the characters' thoughts to be very dull and simple-minded. I found the book very boring and wanted to put it down but since I paid for the hardback, I felt I needed to read it.
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Summary: A fast paced, thrilling novel that keeps your heartrate up!
Review: Having read all of Kellerman's books, this was by far the easiest read so far. It was well developed with lot's of little twists that keep you guessing.
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Summary: quite entertaing and moving novel.
Review: The main character detective Patra was a strong person who gave it her all. This book had some interesting concepts with an abusive boyfriend and a mother who had NO selfworth.Her son Billy Straight has more concepts of right and wrong then his mom.
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Summary: Sterile plot, weak characters
Review: I suspected that the first novel I read after "The Triumph and the Glory" would suffer in the comparison. I was right. But that is not the only problem with Billy Straight. It fails to generate much that one could call real suspense, it depends too much on trite formula fiction.
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Summary: Save your time and money on this one !
Review: Sorry to have to disagree, once again, with the majority of my fellow amateur reviewers, but I feel that not only was this book boring, but the author himself seemed bored and distracted. Plot hackneyed. Characters cardboard. Take the O.J. trial, add a bit of American Psycho, The Collector, The Client, and Nancy Drew and what you wind up with, stinks ! What a mish mosh. Stereotypes all over the place. Reading something like this reminds me why I generally prefer non-fiction and true crime. (And yes, I'm ashamed to admit that I read the whole thing. Hope springs eternal.)
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