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A review by ericbuscemi
Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
3.0
Lullaby Town, the third book in the Elvis Cole series, starts off very slowly. The opening chapters serve as a character study of arrogant Hollywood director Peter Allen Nelson, followed by a less than inspiring missing person search by Cole for Nelson's estranged ex-wife. However, the story finally starts to pick up momentum when it reaches the East Coast, where the mafia, and hence, all of this book's action, is.
A pattern in this series is starting to emerge, beginning with Cole working alone to solve a mystery, then bringing in Pike when things start to get out of hand, and climaxing with a gunfight with that book's bad guys. Cole and Pike have yet to be interrogated by the police for their many -- albeit justified -- killings. At some point, doesn't the body count alone have to get them in trouble?
I prefer Cole and Pike in L.A., as I didn't think Crais got the overall feel of New York City right (although, to be fair, at some points his details were spot on). I would also like to see more of the enigmatic Joe Pike, who is easily the most interesting character in the entire series.
I'll continue reading this series -- I've heard it gets stronger as it progresses -- but I won't listen to another audiobook, as I didn't care for the narrator's interpretation of Elvis Cole (which is important, as it is first-person narrated). Not to say he did a bad job in any objective way, but it was like seeing an actor play a character differently than you pictured them in your imagination.
A pattern in this series is starting to emerge, beginning with Cole working alone to solve a mystery, then bringing in Pike when things start to get out of hand, and climaxing with a gunfight with that book's bad guys. Cole and Pike have yet to be interrogated by the police for their many -- albeit justified -- killings. At some point, doesn't the body count alone have to get them in trouble?
I prefer Cole and Pike in L.A., as I didn't think Crais got the overall feel of New York City right (although, to be fair, at some points his details were spot on). I would also like to see more of the enigmatic Joe Pike, who is easily the most interesting character in the entire series.
I'll continue reading this series -- I've heard it gets stronger as it progresses -- but I won't listen to another audiobook, as I didn't care for the narrator's interpretation of Elvis Cole (which is important, as it is first-person narrated). Not to say he did a bad job in any objective way, but it was like seeing an actor play a character differently than you pictured them in your imagination.