csdaley's review against another edition
I decided to give this series another go because I was in Dublin. I still can't find my way to enjoying it. Won't rate it but it isn't for me.
caitlinxmartin's review against another edition
1.0
I have struggled through this book as much, if not more so, than I did with The Wrong Kind of Blood. Big disappointment after City of Lost Girls.
Mr. Hughes is working really hard at writing an Irish hardboiled detective novel, but this just doesn't work for me. The book sort of plods along with plenty of grim and depressing happenings and just not much going on that I care about. I don't care whodunit. I don't care why. I just want it to be over.
Mr. Hughes is working really hard at writing an Irish hardboiled detective novel, but this just doesn't work for me. The book sort of plods along with plenty of grim and depressing happenings and just not much going on that I care about. I don't care whodunit. I don't care why. I just want it to be over.
bjerz's review against another edition
4.0
Why are most novels about Irish detectives so depressing? It seems, as one of the characters in The Color of Blood says, that the Irish believe what the English, and the Catholic Church, have told them all these years: that they are worthless, stupid and evil. The main characters in The Color of Blood certainly act like they are. Oddly named Ed Loy is the private investigator who has returned to Ireland after many years in LA, and he is trying to figure out who is killing people in the Howard family and why. This is not a book you want to read if you are looking for a sweet little cozy.
wyvernfriend's review against another edition
3.0
Complicated and convoluted story of a family who have a lot of skeletons in their closet. Ed Loy gets involved when Emily, the daughter, is reported kidnapped and her father is sent photographs of her, naked.
As Ed uncovers the truth the bodies mount.
It's pretty evocative of the messy, complicated feuds that happen in Dublin these days. The body count is pretty high though and you'd have to wonder at the mess it makes of the lives left over.
As Ed uncovers the truth the bodies mount.
It's pretty evocative of the messy, complicated feuds that happen in Dublin these days. The body count is pretty high though and you'd have to wonder at the mess it makes of the lives left over.
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