Rating: 
Summary: Butcher's Boy revisited...
Review: This is the much-anticipated (by me) follow-up to "Butcher's Boy". It is a good but not wonderful sequel, as so many are, but still worth the read. But be forewarned: this also has a pretty implausible and coincidental ending. As in "Butcher's Boy", Perry has made our protagonist (here he is named Michael Shaeffer) a just-sympathetic-enough sociopath for us to be rooting for him without compromising our true sense of right or wrong. By accident, he is flushed out of hiding in England and instead of continuing to flee, he returns to the United States to meet his ghosts head-on. The will to survive in this killer is so strong, that it is possible to admire that element and distance oneself from the horror of what he does - but only just. It is never a comfortable choice and requires a full complement of justification. In telling this story, Perry takes us from England back to the States and on a grand tour of characters, locations, and techniques and the journey is never dull. One scene that is fixed in my mind is Michael's character-establishing encounter with a New York street tough. It is icily well written.
Rating:
Summary: Butcher's Boy revisited...
Review: This is the much-anticipated (by me) follow-up to "Butcher's Boy". It is a good but not wonderful sequel, as so many are, but still worth the read. But be forewarned: this also has a pretty implausible and coincidental ending. As in "Butcher's Boy", Perry has made our protagonist (here he is named Michael Shaeffer) a just-sympathetic-enough sociopath for us to be rooting for him without compromising our true sense of right or wrong. By accident, he is flushed out of hiding in England and instead of continuing to flee, he returns to the United States to meet his ghosts head-on. The will to survive in this killer is so strong, that it is possible to admire that element and distance oneself from the horror of what he does - but only just. It is never a comfortable choice and requires a full complement of justification. In telling this story, Perry takes us from England back to the States and on a grand tour of characters, locations, and techniques and the journey is never dull. One scene that is fixed in my mind is Michael's character-establishing encounter with a New York street tough. It is icily well written.
Rating:
Summary: Butcher's Boy revisited...
Review: This is the much-anticipated (by me) follow-up to "Butcher's Boy". It is a good but not wonderful sequel, as so many are, but still worth the read. But be forewarned: this also has a pretty implausible and coincidental ending. As in "Butcher's Boy", Perry has made our protagonist (here he is named Michael Shaeffer) a just-sympathetic-enough sociopath for us to be rooting for him without compromising our true sense of right or wrong. By accident, he is flushed out of hiding in England and instead of continuing to flee, he returns to the United States to meet his ghosts head-on. The will to survive in this killer is so strong, that it is possible to admire that element and distance oneself from the horror of what he does - but only just. It is never a comfortable choice and requires a full complement of justification. In telling this story, Perry takes us from England back to the States and on a grand tour of characters, locations, and techniques and the journey is never dull. One scene that is fixed in my mind is Michael's character-establishing encounter with a New York street tough. It is icily well written.
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Summary: An OK Sequel
Review: This sequel to the incredible "Butcher's Boy" is classic Perry. It involves an extended travel, continuous pursuit, detailed descriptions of the settings, and considerable, mostly believable carnage.While "Dogs" is entertaining and suspenseful, it lacks the unique twist of "Butcher's Boy" wherein the reader finds himself rooting for someone who otherwise would be the bad guy. It's an exicting read, but lacks the unique twist of its predecessor.
Rating:
Summary: An OK Sequel
Review: This sequel to the incredible "Butcher's Boy" is classic Perry. It involves an extended travel, continuous pursuit, detailed descriptions of the settings, and considerable, mostly believable carnage. While "Dogs" is entertaining and suspenseful, it lacks the unique twist of "Butcher's Boy" wherein the reader finds himself rooting for someone who otherwise would be the bad guy. It's an exicting read, but lacks the unique twist of its predecessor.
Rating:
Summary: An OK Sequel
Review: This sequel to the incredible "Butcher's Boy" is classic Perry. It involves an extended travel, continuous pursuit, detailed descriptions of the settings, and considerable, mostly believable carnage. While "Dogs" is entertaining and suspenseful, it lacks the unique twist of "Butcher's Boy" wherein the reader finds himself rooting for someone who otherwise would be the bad guy. It's an exicting read, but lacks the unique twist of its predecessor.
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Summary: If his BUTCHER'S BOY is Old Testment,this's the New Testment
Review: You should read this sequal after you've read the BUTCHER'S BOY. The reasons why I loved these two books so much are 1) they are so uniquely written; 2) they are not so Mario Puzo(with too many Scicillian-Americans jerks). A MUST READ
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