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Title: The Empty Chair by Jeff Deaver, Joe Mantegna, Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0-7435-0052-0 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (165 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Jeffery please hurry up with the next one.....
Comment: It was just a week ago when I read my first Deaver novel, The Coffin Dancer, and now six days later I have finished The Empty Chair and have three more on my night table, and I can't wait to get home to get started on the next one.
I have always been proud of the fact that I can predict what will happen in almost every book or movie, until I found Jeffery Deaver. Its unbelievable even with just 10 or 15 pages left he finds a way to turn the plot around and I just gaze mesmerized at the pages. The Empty Chair has more plot twists than a slinky.
This book is a great combination of thrills and chills but at the same time you get to see a personal side to Lincoln Rhyme and Sachs that keeps you feeling the anxiety of Sachs and the helplessness of Rhyme all throughout the well played out scenario. Its great to see Rhyme pitted against the only human being able to match his wits, his partner Sachs.
All I can say is please Jeffery hurry up with the next one, I don't know what I'll do when I finish the three that are waiting for me at home. I'm hooked.
Rating: 4
Summary: Twists and Turns....a very good read.
Comment: Jeffrey Deaver knows how to weave a plot. He is also excellent at the classic twist and turn. This book however has a few too many twists. The first half revolves around a search for a kidnapper and his victims, which is very intriguing and well paced. In the second half of the book Amelia Sachs, Lincoln Rhyme's girlfriend, does something with the kidnapper that I did not find to be credible. However, you need to accept what she does in order to follow the second half. Lincoln Rhymes, the brilliant quadraplegic forensic scientist is in North Carolia for medical treatment when he is called in to assist on this North Carolina crime. Mr. Deaver knows forensics and it is fascinating to see how dirt and other physical evidence is chronographed and each physical piece of evidence is dissected psychologically and scientifically by Lincoln Rhyme to yield clues. The interplay between Lincoln and Amelia is not as tense and consuming as I would have preferred. All in all, this is a very good read. Though not his best book, I recommend it highly.
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
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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 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 Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver ISBN: 0671038443 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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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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