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Title: Salamander by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 1-56947-157-6 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Starts great, bogs down, and sprints to the end
Comment: Well this was my first of this series. I will say that it took some adjustments. Yes it is not always clear who precisely is speaking and what about. Yes the phrases are repeated frequently but hey you ever speak to a frenchman in french??? Yes these two tendencies caused the book to be a bit of heavy reading through the middle half. Don't despair, as the final quarter gets going this technique makes sense. It had created drudgery and a grind that was equal to the protagonists. So when things get going the writer alters tactics and goes to a quite successful conclusion. I strongly encourage folks of a patient nature to give this a try.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Big Confusion
Comment: Well, I read it to the end, but this was a hard piece of work! The story is pretty weird and so is the style of Mr Janes. You never know who's talking or who's thinking what. There are way too many characters introduced - Kohler and St Cyr are confused most of the time and after a few pages the reader's in the same situation. But at least St Cyr makes the right remark about all this on almost every page: "merde".
Rating: 2
Summary: Great Concept, Mediocre Execution
Comment: This is the ninth book in the Canadian author's series set in occupied France, featuring a detecting duo of one German Gestapo agent, and one French Sureté officer. I love the concept, but the mystery--set in Lyon, a few days before Christmas in 1942--is a confusing mess involving way too many characters and bizarre motivations. Also, the author's style of preceding a character's dialogue with their interior thoughts gets annoying and intrusive. All in all, the book was not satisfying, and didn't tempt me to seek out the others in the series.
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Title: Stonekiller by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 156947107X Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Dollmaker by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 1569473463 Publisher: Soho Crime Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sandman (St-Cyr and Kohler) by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 1569471207 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Mayhem by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 1569471584 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Carousel (St-Cyr and Kohler) by J. Robert Janes ISBN: 1569471754 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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