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A review by p_t_b
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
3.0
i feel bashful/possibly outright bad about turning to relatively normcore cop fiction for a distraction in this particular slice of American time. please don't mistake me for oblivious or a blue-lives stan. I've been nibbling through the Amazon adaptations as a distraction during the plague year. they're sturdy and sound and kind of handsome in a stumpy way (i also feel bashful about watching them but Bosch isn't really a valorized warrior cop, he's more of a grumpy anti-protagonist on screen)
anyway this was too long, and a bit chewy, but totally acceptable Law Enforcement Narrative. it has occasional aspirations to being noir, pulp, post-Vietnam recovery narrative, heist thriller, etc. what keeps it enjoyable is the steady, easy pacing and dabs of quirk. I'm probably gonna read a few more or these because i could use the empty art calories as ballast rn because reality insists on being so trash. anyway interrogate your received ideas about what makes the state & its agents legitimate representatives of the people, keep your head up etc
anyway this was too long, and a bit chewy, but totally acceptable Law Enforcement Narrative. it has occasional aspirations to being noir, pulp, post-Vietnam recovery narrative, heist thriller, etc. what keeps it enjoyable is the steady, easy pacing and dabs of quirk. I'm probably gonna read a few more or these because i could use the empty art calories as ballast rn because reality insists on being so trash. anyway interrogate your received ideas about what makes the state & its agents legitimate representatives of the people, keep your head up etc