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Title: Bitter Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0-515-13569-0 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: serial killers can be dull, too
Comment: This novel got less and less interesting the closer I got to the end, the exact opposite of what a crime novelist should be trying to achieve. I think the main problem is the way he deals with the serial killer-- with the author trying to keep his identity a secret, we never really get to know the charismatic psychopath, and he remains a background character, an enigma.
Second is the way the crimes are committed themselves. That so many people would willingly let someone carve poems into their flesh, even after the bodies begin to pile up, is ludicrous.
There are other problems, too: too little forensic or investigative detail, characters that are caricatures, etc. I read his first four or five Jessica Coran novels, and this is a big disappointment compared with those early efforts.
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst of the Instinct series, simply godawful
Comment: Words do not do justice as to how bad this book is. Seriously, is this the same Robert W. Walker? The first five books in the instinct series were AWESOME, the next two decent. But this one...[is not good]. The plot is secondary to Jessica finding herself and dealing iwth heartache and finding the strength to move on and...oh yeah by the way there's this killer out there that's not even bothering to worry about getting caught and he merrily piles up the bodies. Then the last hundred pages features a resolution so innate, ridiculous, and just plain horrible that finally I just slammed the book down once I found out who the killer was. And SURPRISE - it wasn't hard to figure out!
The worst in the series by far, so verbose and jumpy at times (five paragraphs about Jessica's thoughts and feelings every three or four pages, as just one example - oh yes there are more) that it's literally a struggle to read more then five or six pages at a sitting. Don't bother with this [book].
Rating: 3
Summary: A good read but something's missing
Comment: I picked this up because the blurbs said it was similar to another author noted for her strong female character Kay Scarpetta. Oh how I miss that. I didn't find exactly what I was looking for but it was a good read. Me, I'm hooked on forensic science and even enjoy Johanson's Eve Duncan which she hasn't written more of, drat.
Walker was OK, a fair substitute until something better comes along. The surprise suspect and killer wasn't known thru much of the book, and I was surprised at the revelation, but the plot did seem to drag. Whose poetry did he use?
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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: Extreme Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515121959 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pure Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0515117552 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blind Instinct by Robert W. Walker, Robert Wayne Walker ISBN: 0515131504 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 29 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Grave Instinct by Robert W. Walker ISBN: 0425191702 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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