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Title: Day of Atonement by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0-06-055489-4 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: YAWN...
Comment: This 4th in the series of Decker and Lazarus is weighed down by Kellerman's insistence on focusing once again on Jewish tradition and its place in the newlywed's lives. While Kellerman has entertained in the previous three novels, in spite of this what I consider weakness, this novel is just not exciting. The entire middle is spent interviewing and moaning over Noam's disappearance, and of course, more Jewish lore and tradition that has become redundant and plot-suffocation. Faye needs to adopt more of her husband Jonathan's panache for good plots and a faster pace. This one bogs down and its resolution is unsatisfying. I've obtained her whole series and plan to continue to read, I just hope in the future books, she makes plot, suspense and intrigue more important than the obvious love she has for her family tradition. And hopefully Peter and Rina will start treating each other as adults rather than spoiled children trying to outdo each other.
NOT RECOMMENDED UNLESS YOU'RE INTO THE SERIES.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stayed up all night, could not put any of her books down
Comment: Faye Kellerman has the ability to involve the reader from page one. Her entire series of Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus books are spellbinders. She follows the relationship between Peter and Rina from when they first met in Ritual Bath through to Prayers for the Dead. She weaves her books beautifully around the life of orthodox Jews and those who are both less religous and those who are not Jewish. You watch the characters grow from the first word to the last. I always end her books wanting to read another
Rating: 3
Summary: Sort of derivative, but decent book anyway
Comment: There really isn't a whole lot of suspense in the book. It is almost impossible to not know what is going to happen at the end, though I will not tell you anyway. The book focuses on a disaffected Orthodox Jewish youth who gets mixed up with a psychopath. Although it discusses some of the issues, in general, as to what could cause this young man to act as he does, it really talks more about why the psycho is crazy than why the youth runs away from home.
The ability for the hero of the tome, Peter Decker to find his quarry is beyond belief, even for Hollywood. The guy obviously has the hearing of a canine in being able to tell what street corner the kid is calling from.
There is an interesting and gripping adoption line as well. Decker is adopted, was born Jewish, brought up Baptist, and now married into an ultra-Orthodox family. I have not read the other books in the series, but how he really feels about that could have been better developed as well.
Overall, the book was simple to figure out, but the writing was good enough and close enough to home to me to give it three stars.
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Title: False Prophet by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0449003299 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 038073267X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380732688 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Grievous Sin by FAYE KELLERMAN ISBN: 0449003302 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sanctuary by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380724979 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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