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A review by sadgirlrini
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
1.0
I would have never thought to pick this book up, but one of the lawyers at work lent it to me when he found out I went to school for English. I figured within the first two pages that this was a later installment in a series, since it was assumed that Chili Palmer is just a guy that we all know. While I finished this book, I can't say I really enjoyed it. Sure, a lot of the things that I didn't like about it were stylistic choices—such as the weird racist comments and characters that seemed pretty one-dimensional and were very unlikable (this is a book about 90's L.A. showbiz after all)—I just didn't feel like it worked well enough for it to add much to the story.
The intrigue that was in the book at the beginning quickly disappeared and I was left wondering on each page if the questions I had at the start would be resolved in any satisfying way. It wasn't. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to figure out what the point of this whole novel even was, but I doubt that. Even though it's a sequel in a series, it still works as a standalone story without any prior knowledge of the first book, but I still wouldn't recommend this book to any of my friends.
The intrigue that was in the book at the beginning quickly disappeared and I was left wondering on each page if the questions I had at the start would be resolved in any satisfying way. It wasn't. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to figure out what the point of this whole novel even was, but I doubt that. Even though it's a sequel in a series, it still works as a standalone story without any prior knowledge of the first book, but I still wouldn't recommend this book to any of my friends.