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Summary: Q is for Quarry
Review: I've read all of the books to date in this series and while I still enjoy reading them, they have become decreasingly entertaining. This book in particular has a very slow start and seems to get bogged down in pointless details (Do I need to know yet again that Kinsey forces herself out of bed for her 6:00am run?) I like the premise of the book, an unsolved crime, but it takes too long to get going. Overall an average read.
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Summary: A Worthy Addiiton to the Alphabet Series
Review: A worthy addition to Grafton's series and an interesting change of pace. Although it starts out slow, by the end of the book I was fascinated with the plot and characters and was sorry to see it end. I would not recommend this one to an uninitiated Grafton reader, but "A is for Alias" is the natural starting point anyway. The sideshow parts of the these novels such as Henry, Rosie, Diehl (when will he come back?), and Kinsey's lost family add a lot of charm and familiarity for the return reader. Kinsey Millhone continues to be an enigma that I enjoy getting to know better with each installment. I also find the historical timeline of the series very appealing. My being almost the same age as Kinsey makes the mid-eighties setting of the books and her late sixties coming of age a sentimental trip down memory lane for me.
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Summary: Almost four stars
Review: I really like Kinsey Millhone, and I honestly really like what Grafton has been doing with the character. It's tough to keep the interest up for as many books as she has done and I think that she really deserves credit for doing as well as she has done. If it sounds as though I'm darning this book with faint praise, then I guess that I am. I like Kinsey Millhone, I like Grafton's writing, but this book made me (for all its strengths) a little bit tired. The Millhone can't collaborate vibe is getting a little old, as is the dancing around about her family. I appreciated the change of scenery and the story was mostly interesting, but it felt a little bit like treading water to me. If you like the rest of the series, this one is worth reading. If you aren't familiar with Kinsey already, while this isn't the worst place to start it also isn't the best.
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Summary: Q is for Quarry
Review: I enjoyed this book. It isnt one of my favorites basically due to the "too tidy" ending. It wrapped up way to quick and easy in my opinion. I was hoping for a bit more on her family ties, yet those were left far behind about midway through the book. More will come up in her next novels, I am sure. I liked the idea of the cold case. It was interesting to go along for the ride on what little evidence they had and such a huge gap in time from the scene of the crime until present time.
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Summary: Good Book, Bad Recording
Review: I love the Sue Grafton books on tape. Judy Kaye does a wonderful job at creating the different voices of the many characters in the book. The quality of the recording is very bad. I have to return two copies of this book on tape. Both tapes had a echo effect on it, and some of the tapes you could only hear any other word. So make sure you check your tapes for these problems
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Summary: Q is for Quarry
Review: I have also read all of Sue Grafton's books and this is definitely on the bottom of the list! What a waste of time. It starts out slow and goes downhill from then on. I kept thinking it would get better and forced myself to read it all the way to the end and it never got any better.
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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: There hasn't been a bad book in the entire Kinsey Millhone alphabet mystery series, but there have been a few that leave the reader wishing for just a bit more...Q for Quarry is one of these...it has everything that Ms. Grafton does so well, she just forgot to put enough of it in this mystery...it's like a 3/4 Kinsey Millhone mystery...but it's still a good read!
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Summary: Welcome back Kinsey!
Review: Sue Grafton is the Queen of Mystery. I've read every Kinsey Millhone novel and am looking forward to the next in the series. That being said, there are a few flaws in Q is for Quarry, but none that would cause a less than Five-Star review. For example, the issue of Kinsey's distant relatives may be picked up in the next novel, but it was left far too abruptly for this reader's taste. Until I finished the book, I hadn't realized this novel was in fact based on a real-life Jane Doe case that Ms. Grafton has taken interest in. The fictional mystery itself was paced a little slower than some of the other Alphabet series, but somehow it fit with this book, being out of Santa Teresa and Kinsey a bit out of her element. As a series of novels written in the first person, I find the descriptions--sometimes very detailed--to be an insight into Kinsey's inner-self and it feels like a friend is telling me about her surroundings. Hope the next year-plus goes by quickly for the relase of "R is for...?"
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Summary: Wow...this was a terrible book.
Review: Books like this make me think "If this is all it takes to become a successful writer, I am in the WROOOONG business!" Plot is horrible. The characters are boring. Story lines are started, and then dropped (the whole "family" subplot). I can't fathom why someone would enjoy this.
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Summary: A mediocre effort
Review: Right off the bat, I want to make it clear that I am a fan of both Grafton and the Millhone series. I've read them all. Q is a quite competent, yet joyless addition to the series. The plot is serviceable and Kinsey is mellowing with age. There is some significant turns in her family relations that start up and then are left hanging. The usual cast of characters is noticeably absent in this effort as Kinsey works with Lieutenant Dolan and an old colleague of his to solve a decades old murder case. Henry, Rosie, and her other pals are barely in the book. I found there to be far too much rudimentary detail of no consequence. This book is really overwritten. At one point she describes the interior of a garage and notes that there is grease and wrenches about! What a revelation at a garage! And most importantly, there's no danger. I think a lot of the fun of this series is watching Kinsey stir up trouble and then get your adrenaline going as the bad guy(s)come calling. There were opportunities for more spinetingling episodes but no payoff. IN a nutshell, I want to see more oooph, more danger, and fewer words.
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