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lumineaux57. The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
By about 3/4 of the way through the book, I had decided that it was nothing more than irredeemably adequate. Then the WTF?!! plot twist smacked me between the eyes. I praise Deaver for playing my genre expectations like a violin. I still had a sneaking suspicion that one of sympathetic characters was probably a bad guy, and the book still told me way more about piloting small planes than I ever wanted to know, but bravo to Deaver for legitimately catching me off-guard and by surprise with a plot development.
I also have to praise Deaver for not succumbing to one of the more annoying tropes in modern popular media -- namely, keeping two characters with obvious chemistry apart by using increasingly strained excuses for their not getting together. I firmly believe that every series writer (TV or book) needs to have the following words tatooed to his or her skull: "Moonlighting sucked because they ran out of good writing, not because the leads slept together." Let's hope Deaver keeps up his refreshingly straightforward take on relationships in upcoming books in the series.
By about 3/4 of the way through the book, I had decided that it was nothing more than irredeemably adequate. Then the WTF?!! plot twist smacked me between the eyes. I praise Deaver for playing my genre expectations like a violin. I still had a sneaking suspicion that one of sympathetic characters was probably a bad guy, and the book still told me way more about piloting small planes than I ever wanted to know, but bravo to Deaver for legitimately catching me off-guard and by surprise with a plot development.
I also have to praise Deaver for not succumbing to one of the more annoying tropes in modern popular media -- namely, keeping two characters with obvious chemistry apart by using increasingly strained excuses for their not getting together. I firmly believe that every series writer (TV or book) needs to have the following words tatooed to his or her skull: "Moonlighting sucked because they ran out of good writing, not because the leads slept together." Let's hope Deaver keeps up his refreshingly straightforward take on relationships in upcoming books in the series.
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