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Summary: Not her best work
Review: I have read all of her Decker books, and I am quite disappointed with this one. I agree with the comments several others made who rated her 3 stars as I have. And I don't understand the very last page of the book. I must have missed something, not knowing what that was all about.
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Summary: It Just Gets Worse...
Review: There was a time when Mrs. Kellerman's books could be counted on to be better written and be superior to her husband's books. However, the last four books have shown a serious decline of Cronwellian purportions. It would seem that the Kellerman's are joined in a competition which pits them in a battle to career death. Or stated in other terms, how long will people continue to buy name brand authors who phone in and otherwise pad their creations with stilted and laughable dialogue, stories in which a child can tell whodunit with the first line of dialogue, and more phony introspection about the demands of police work and/or Yuppie Orthodox lifestyle challenges? The challenges of delivering a new book every year to support the Kellerman's lifestyle, might be better spent perhaps writing about two married best seller writers who have run out of fresh ideas, discipline plotting and respect for the people who read their recycled exercises in vanity.
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Summary: Plumb out of ideas - take a year off, Faye
Review: I'm a big Faye Kellerman fan and always look forward to her next book. In Stone Justice, apparently lacking any new ideas, she attempts without success to combine winning elements from several previous novels: pornography, the mafia, Decker's Brooklyn relatives, the ultra-Orthodox community of Brooklyn, child molestation, Rina's "past". Fuhgeddaboudit. It just doesn't gel. The plot is exhaustingly convoluted, the dialogue hackneyed. I felt sorry for the characters. As they go through the motions, they seem to be asking the same question we are: "Is this exercise really necessary"? We've been there, done that. Kellerman can still turn out a great scene now and then with her extraordinary eye for detail and her familiarity with the Orthodox lifestyle (the mothers at LeMarais steakhouse exchanging the crucial information of which yeshiva in Israel their children attended was dead-on), but the many action sequences are poorly staged and confusing. And if I want a Mafia story, I'll reread Mario Puzo...
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Summary: Great Psychopath, Generic Story
Review: I felt the parts involving any interaction with the psychopath Chris Donatti were excellent, his characterization, superb. Otherwise I found this murder mystery to be generic. I didn't learn new anything about New York.
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Summary: A different Decker story
Review: Who knew Peter Decker had so many family members? Just when you think you have heard of them all - another one pops us. Half brothers, brothers, biological mother, adoptive mother, adoptive brother etc. etc. etc. ... Lots of characters to keep track of in this new mystery by Faye Kellerman. It has a lot of Peter Decker in it - not too much Rina - which was a disappointment. Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, there are a lot of Jewish phrases in this book and a lot to learn about Chasidism (which I found very interesting). The most interesting character in the story is Christopher Donatti, a fascinating psychopath - you hate and admire him at the same time. I'm sure he will crop up again in another story. This story does keep your attention and you do want to keep reading to find out what happens but it's not as good as some of Kellerman's earlier works.
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Summary: Disjointed
Review: I agree completely with Jerry Bull's review. In addition, the authoress introduces, or reintroduces, a character S. Gilbert who is found dead. I probably missed (or forgot) the first reference to this man but, in either event, the book was too dull and too caught up in Judaism to reread. I could care less!
T. R. Reid
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Summary: Oy Vey--this is awful.
Review: Ms. Kellerman is an excellent writer in need of a good story. Her incessant and extensive descriptions of the beauty and perfection of her continuing main character, Rina Decker,are a detracting factor in many previous books, as well as in this one. Poor character development,plus a confusing story with too many coincidences and loose ends, make this book heavy going.
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Summary: Wasted Time-Wasted Money
Review: Unless you are able to understand the Jewish rituals this book is not for you. Some of her books in the past have used them but not to this extent. I found my self wondering what they meant and why they were important to the story. Wished I had saved my money
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Summary: Maybe I'm sick, but.....
Review: I think I might be in love with Chris Donatti. Anybody who hasn't read Justice needs to do so before reading Stone Kiss so they can see the entire character. He's a sociopath and the most criminal man I can imagine but there's just something about him.....
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Summary: Good Read
Review: I missed Cindy, Marge, and Oliver, however I enjoyed an update on characters from earlier books. The book that I didn't like in this series was Justice. I thought Decker was to hard on Christopher and was unhappy with the ending. I was glad to read about him and Terri again. I choose to view Christopher as someone who has survived the best way he could and by some incredible odds has some redeeming qualities. Some of the men that he took out were pure evil. I also think that Decker has some weaknesses of his own. He definitely took the easy way out by allowing Jonathan's brother-in-law to die a hero, but then talks about revenge in the future. He used Donatti but condemned him for his help. I think that is a very self-serving attitude. Peter and Rina were certainly happy with the news that the world had one less child molester. I guess Peter wants to avenge that illegal act also.
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