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Title: The Red Room by Nicci French ISBN: 0-446-61137-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (22 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Am I Blue....
Comment: I don't know about you, but when I read a book by one of my favorite authors, my expectations are higher than when I read a book by an author who is unknown to me. When the book doesn't live up to my expectations, I guess I feel so let down that I tend to be hyper-critical.
This latest book by Nicci French lacked the edge and the connection to the protagonist that I experienced when reading a French book. When reading "Killing Me Softly" and "Beneath the Skin," I was constantly asking myself..."What would I have done?" I rarely found myself asking that while reading "The Red Room" On the contrary, I felt no connection to the protagonist, Kit Quinn. Although the character is explored in great depth, I just could not get drawn into her life.
Most of the other characters in the book were not well defined and, quite often, I wondered why they were there at all. Story lines were introduced and never fully explored or haphazardly explained leaving me a bit bewildered at times.
This was one of those books where you are waiting for that stunning moment to occur. There was only one scene in the book that was reminiscent of the French style. Unfortunately, a three to four page scene is not enough to carry a book.
On the positive side, the book was a very fast read. Maybe that is because I was frantically turning pages hoping to reach the point when I would feel that sense of urgency I felt when reading the prior two books.
When I finished this book, I had the feeling that this was the first book in a series featuring Kit Quinn, who goes from being a therapist to a forensic psychologist and super sleuth in short order.
If allowed, I would give this book 2-1/2 stars. As homage to the husband and wife team of Nicci French who have given me so many hours of exciting and insightful reading pleasure, I will give the book a three-star rating.
I am left waiting for the next French book with the optimism that it will be up to the level of excellence of the prior two books.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nicci French has done it again!
Comment: I have read and loved all of French's books -- I particularly loved Killing Me Softly and Beneath the Skin -- and I couldn't wait to read The Red Room, although I have to admit that I am disappointed with the fact that this book doesn't delve into the subject of obsession, like her previous novels. Well, I guess the writer had to try something new.
Dr. Kit Quinn is a crime psychologist who has been given the task of helping the police investigate the murder of a homeless girl. The assigned detectives believe that a creepy fisherman named Michael Doll is responsible for said murder, but Kit is convinced that it isn't a simple open and shut case and begins to fish out the truth by connecting crimes that the detectives see as irrelevent to the crime in question. There are various twists in the novel, and in most cases the development of the story may confuse the reader (or at least it confused me), but -- like the vast majority of novels in this genre -- everything falls into place at the end. The novel contains a memorable foreshadow. This books is everything a good mystery/thriller should be.
I have to admit that this novel isn't as suspenseful or sensuous as French's previous efforts, but it is a great read nevertheless. In the bargain for a clever thriller? Read The Red Room. In fact, I recommend all books from this great English writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Cover Tells Too Much!!!
Comment: While I did like "The Red Room", I kept wondering when the actual book would catch up with the information I'd already learned by reading the back cover blurb. This was a little annoying and made the book seem a bit long. I don't mind a long book I'm really enjoying, but I don't like waiting for something to happen that I already know about (kinda like seeing too many trailers before a movie).
I very much enjoy the author's writing style, altho in this case I would say I still prefer "Killing Me Softly" and "Beneath The Skin" as more mysterious and sexy and held together as stories. This one had a little too much going on and I felt like one scenario kept repeating itself: The police would tell Dr Quinn they didn't need her on the case anymore, she would beg them to listen to her which would irk them, and then she would prove them wrong again...and again.
There were several nice little twists to the story that I appreciated (and won't give away, altho it would be too complicated to anyway), so I still recommend the book, but going by my personal rule of only hanging onto books I've read that I plan to someday read again, I'm passing "The Red Room" along, rather than putting it next to Nicci French's two others on my bookshelves.
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Title: Beneath the Skin by Nicci French ISBN: 0446609781 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Me Softly : A Novel of Obsession by Nicci French ISBN: 0446608386 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Land of the Living by Nicci French ISBN: 0446531510 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Memory Game by Nicci French ISBN: 0754010228 Publisher: Chivers Press Ltd |
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Title: The safe house by Nicci French ISBN: 0718143051 Publisher: M. Joseph Pub. Date: 1998 |
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