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Title: Blind Instinct by Robert W. Walker, Robert Wayne Walker ISBN: 0-515-13150-4 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Walker shines in his HC debut!
Comment: I've read all of the INSTINCT books and must say that this is a very literary and well-written novel. This one is set in London, England and follows evil in a few disguises...the twist of who actually is behind the murders is good. The only bad part was the story of TATOO MAN, I don't think that should have been in this one, a waste of space. I'm glad Walker decided not to tell us who the killer is, like he's done in the past books. I like a little whodunnit in my suspense books I read.
Walker's knowledge of English terms and language is masterful, Jessica's dillemas are all to real and the outcome leaves me wanting more of this series.
I'm currently hunting down any and all of Walker's other books and look forward to his next one. Good stuff!
Rating: 1
Summary: Absolute and Utter Waste of Paper, Time and Money!
Comment: I found this book on a discount rack for a dollar. That should have been my first clue. What got me to buy it was a Clive Cussler comment, "Walker is Masterful." Well, Clive's books have been going downhill, so maybe I shouldn't have placed stock in his comment.
Amateurish would be a compliment for this writer, who displays from almost the first page his utter lack of understanding of the subject matter and a total lack of research into his chosen main location, London. Inaccuracies and errors abound (I found his reference to Sherlock Holmes living at 21 Baker Street to be particularly amusing). It looks like he bought a tourist book of London and freely quoted from it in order to flesh out his locations and descriptions. He used a phrasebook to get his London expressions right, and when he needed to fill out a chapter he just spent four pages defining English colloqialisms. By the way, Mr. Walker, using the word "bloody" this or that is particularly insulting in England, comparable to using the "F" word in America. If Sharpe used it that frequently around Jessica, he was being an unfeeling and insensitive cad to a visitor he was trying to get friendly with. The author also has no time sense, skipping merrily from morning to afternoon to evening with no continuity.
As for his lead character, Dr. Jessica Coran, it is obvious that Mr. Walker hasn't had a date with a woman in years. He handles his title character hamhandedly, and has her make stupid, loutish and suicidal decisions that would get her drummed out of the Mayberry Police Department by Barney Fife himself, let alone be a member of the FBI. Her personality is oafish and insulting, and she displays a total lack of compassion and intelligence. Let me give you a clue, Dr. Coran. I knew from his first appearance who the killer was, and only a blind, stupid idiot would have missed it. In addition, never go into a dark, unexplored cavern without backup and with your prime suspects both ahead of you and behind you. You deserved what you got in the cavern. I wish you'd paid for your stupidity with your life. It would have ended this truly banal series of books.
The book's supporting characters are shallow and unfulfilled. The relationship between Shape and Copperwaite takes wild swings even before their conflict. Their use of nicknames is inconsistent and confusing, with the reader never really getting a handle on their relationship.
I also checked out the author's web site, which looks like it was made by a seventeen-year-old who has seen too many episodes of "Tales from the Crypt". A truly low-class web site that proves that you get what you pay for; obviously not much in this case.
I've thrown this book away (a first for me) so that no on else will ever be in the least tempted to read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Ever
Comment: I have to admit this is the first of Robert Walkers book i have read, though I am a big reader of mystery books. This is by far the best book i have read. It takes a few pages to get really into it but its just gets better and better. Great book.
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Title: Bitter Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515135690 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pure Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515117552 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Unnatural Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515135291 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fatal Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 051511913X Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Darkest Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515118567 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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