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Title: The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0-671-02601-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (165 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not nearly as good as the first two books in the series
Comment: If you know Deaver's series about quadriplegic forensic investigator Lincoln Rhyme and his love affair/sidekick ex-model-turned-into-cop Amelia Sachs, you'll realise "The empty chair" has all elements to give continuity to one of the best thriller series I know: a murder, kidnapping, interesting forensic details, Rhyme and Sachs running against time, etc. But this third book is not nearly as good as the first two, "The bone collector" and " The coffin dancer".
Why is that? In my opinion, one of the greatest things about Lincoln and Amelia is the feeling of closeness the reader gets when reading about the crippled investigator. Lincoln is always in his state-of-the-art medical bed, surrounded by latest technology forensic equipment, and Amelia is Lincoln's eyes and legs. This combination prooved to be very good and adequate in the first two books.
In "The empty chair", Lincoln and Amelia are not in New York anymore. They have traveled to North Carolina, where Rhyme will undergo a cirurgy that may restore some of his nerve connections. But while wating the cirurgy, the local sheriff asks Lincoln to help him in a murder-kidnapp case. From there, Deaver gives the reader his usually competent plot. The problem is, in this book character development is way below average. It's full of stereotypes. Even Rhyme and Sachs are a little worn out. Other characters are flat and I often confused one with another in the first pages of the book. The final solution of the mistery is simply ridiculous, when you think in Jeffery Deaver's terms. It's the kind of solution used in bad first-books by unknown authors in the eighties. Deaver disappointed me badly with the last hundred pages of "The empty chair".
I hope "The stone monkey" is much better than this one, because Rhyme and Sachs are too good a team to be forsaken.
Grade 6.3/10
Rating: 2
Summary: Oh puhleeease!
Comment: Oh! There aren't enough words to say how dreadful this novel is! Implausible story! Embarrassingly stereotypical characters! Emotionally challenged women, super-macho men! How impossible that so many people in such a small town could ALL be involved in murder! I physically cringed when, in the middle of a stand-off, as a man is lying on the floor bleeding from a gunshot wound, the person who goes to his aid is told, "One thing, he's gay. He's been tested, but.." How outrageous is that! Just because a man is gay, you're supposed to automatically assume he might have AIDS?! Several times I wanted to throw the book away, but I just had to know if the story redeemed itself in the end. No, it didn't! Avoid this trainwreck of a book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Is the "Insect Boy," Really A Killer?
Comment: Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from the Bone Collector and the Coffin Dancer, will fcae his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing; keeping him is quite another. Now Rhyme finds himself hunting a ruhtless killer in the heart of a southern swampland-and going head-to-head with his protege, Amelia Sachs. This is a rivalry that will test both the limits of their expertise and their love.
The book will keep you in suspense.
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Title: The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0671024094 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0743437802 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Devil's Teardrop: A Novel of the Last Night of the Century by Jeff Deaver, Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0671038443 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Vanished Man : A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0743222008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Bone Collector by Jeff Deaver, Jeffery Deaver, Hart Hardy ISBN: 0451188454 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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