Rating: 
Summary: Bad, bad writing
Review: To put it simply: an awful book. Not even scary. Badly written.
Rating: 
Summary: It's a part two!
Review: When I began reading, the earlier crime seemed so familiar. Then I realized that this is a part two of Hour of the Hunter. It is just if not more violent. It starts really slowly, mainly because Jance spends a great deal of time setting up the character histories, local color, and Native American legends. Then the plots resumes speed and gets interesting. There is no real main character, but by the end I was so invested in Davy, Brian, and Lania that the book WAS WORTH THE SLOW START. It is certainly not like either of her series but I'm glad I purchased the hard cover.
Rating:
Summary: KISSED BY THE BEES
Review: When I read this book, I did not know that it was a sequel to Ms. Jance's "Hour of the Hunter." I guess that explains why the book puzzled me at times with it's flashbacks of what must have happened in that book. Jance does a credible job in interweaving her Indian folklore and her rather complex, if convuluted, melodramatics. I did find, however, that after a while, the Indian tales got to be a little tedious, and hard to follow. Diana Ladd and David Ladd (come on, Jance, both of these names are well-known actors, wouldn't it have been better to use something a little more original?) are very shallow and unsympathetic characters in this book. I don't know how they came off in the first book, but they don't evoke a lot of sympathy in this sequel. The husband, Brandon, comes across very brutish and callous in the beginning, and even when he mellows out as tragedy befalls his family, the change isn't very believable. The character of Quentin, his son, is irreprehensible, and I don't know why Jance allows him to hang around at the book's ending. The villains, both Andrew Carlisle and Mitch Johnson, are mere effigies of villains given us by masters Jeffrey Deaver and James Patterson. I haven't read Ms. Jance's series novels, but this one doesn't really entice me to do so. This is not by any means an awful book, but it is a difficult read and does not move as fast as it should.
Rating:
Summary: KISSED BY THE BEES
Review: When I read this book, I did not know that it was a sequel to Ms. Jance's "Hour of the Hunter." I guess that explains why the book puzzled me at times with it's flashbacks of what must have happened in that book. Jance does a credible job in interweaving her Indian folklore and her rather complex, if convuluted, melodramatics. I did find, however, that after a while, the Indian tales got to be a little tedious, and hard to follow. Diana Ladd and David Ladd (come on, Jance, both of these names are well-known actors, wouldn't it have been better to use something a little more original?) are very shallow and unsympathetic characters in this book. I don't know how they came off in the first book, but they don't evoke a lot of sympathy in this sequel. The husband, Brandon, comes across very brutish and callous in the beginning, and even when he mellows out as tragedy befalls his family, the change isn't very believable. The character of Quentin, his son, is irreprehensible, and I don't know why Jance allows him to hang around at the book's ending. The villains, both Andrew Carlisle and Mitch Johnson, are mere effigies of villains given us by masters Jeffrey Deaver and James Patterson. I haven't read Ms. Jance's series novels, but this one doesn't really entice me to do so. This is not by any means an awful book, but it is a difficult read and does not move as fast as it should.
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