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Der Vollstrecker by Chris Carter

3 reviews

remi_san's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Hooked from page 1. No nonsense and short crisp chapters with cliffhanger.. binge reading this series 😁
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slintangel's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

[ NOT SPOILER FREE ] my bullet pointed thoughts.:

• the author seems to offer wikipedia style descriptions of characters regardless of whether they're relevant and uses them as some silly pretense for an introduction or worse... character development. maybe it's all about me being usually turned off by this sort of writing style (jo nesbo comes to mind) but i found it jarring and a little tiresome. did we need someone's lifestory complete with name drops only for them to get killed a few pages later? why not spend that time on some real development for characters like robert or garcia... even hopkins or blake, anyone really.

• the whole subplot felt incredibly unnecessary. i kept thinking the slasher was going to be a set up for a sequel somehow (silly me, i know.) the side characters just didn't contribute much to the story other than extra pages especially with them being forgotten about for several chapters. it's like they served their immediate purpose and were instantly discarded.

• robert is insanely good at everything and everyone loves him. i honestly don't care about this but if it's something that annoys you this isn't the book for you.

• i will not comment on the reveal but just know i have thoughts. what i will talk about however is the blatant, shameless copaganda that doesn't even bother to cover or even make itself interesting. "cops need to break procedure and withhold information... it helps them save more civilians!! it's for the greater good of everybody!!" this is almost word for word by the way, the implications aren't subtle and the dialogue even less so. 

• speaking of which, i found the dialogue to be clunky and very exposition heavy. sometimes it didn't feel as if the character was speaking but rather as if they were reciting the script of a forensic files episode. an example of this would be when they speculate on how certain victims' deaths must have taken place and how those individuals must have felt in those moments. i didn't believe in it as a real conversation anyone would have but rather carter's attempt to shove a bit more gratuitious violence for us to clutch our pearls at. robert and garcia continued each other's sentences, on the same wavelength, their revelations coming across as flat and disinterested. none of the tension was palpable because these events were told in such monotone dialogue lacking any interjections or personal effects. in fact, there were hardly any times i could distinguish these two from your average hardboiled cop. isn't that such a sad fate for a literary hero? 

• props for being insanely readable i guess, finished this in a day while in a reading slump and though i couldn't stop rolling my eyes at least it was done. 
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t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

4.5 Stars
CAWPILE = 8.32
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