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Title: Family Honor by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0-425-17706-8 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (103 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read, but comes up short of Spenser.
Comment: I have been a huge fan of the Spenser books for a long time now and always look foward to the release of a new Robert B. Parker book. This new character is good, but lacks the spark (and wit) of Spenser.
Sunny Randall is, however, a much more exciting character than Parker created in his Jesse Stone books. I especially enjoyed the interaction between her ex-husband and her gay friend Spike. They are so different and yet so alike.
Despite the short-comings of this book, it is still a wonderful read. Nobody gives rich dialouge like Parker. And it is amazing how much excitement Parker can pack into the 3 page showdown between Sunny and the villian at Tony Marcus' resturant.
It's just sad to have your appitite whet with Tony Marcus and Ty-bop and not have Spenser around. Well, I guess we just have to wait another six months ...
Rating: 3
Summary: A Not Bad First Outing for PI Sunny Randall
Comment: As a long time fan of Parker's Spenser novels I was curious to see how he would handle writing with the voice of a female protagonist. I found this book to be quite entertaining with the trademark Parker dialogue which always make his books such an easy read. Let's face it, Parker's books are wonderful brain candy not The Name of the Rose or The Celestine Prophecy and I'm about to commit heresy on Amazon by saying I was hesitant to buy this book in hardcover so I got it out of the library. I think Parker books are always best savored in paper back because you're talking about a mere 2-3 day commitment. I think we're in the Getting to Know Sunny Randall stage of the game in terms of this character as well as her sidekicks. I'm hoping that Parker has plans to flesh out these characters in subsequent outings. I thought Parker scored with Sunny's dilemmas over whether or not to ask for male assistance in some of her confrontations. I thought that a very realistic touch but are we going to be treated to Felicity-like agonizing over Richie vs. Brian vs. God Knows Who in the next book? With a so-so movie you wait for the video, with a so-so book you wait for the paperback. Wait for the paperback or visit your library on this one but once you get it in your hands sit back and escape, you'll enjoy it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Family secrets
Comment: Sunny and Richie were married for nine years. They had had a house in Marblehead. Richie refused the house. Sunny wrapped her paintings in order to move her things. Her mother said she was disappointed. Her father offered to help with a divorce or with whatever she needed. Families offer protection to their members. Protection is the theme of Parker's story.
Sunny was a cop, her father was a cop. Richie resembled her father although he came from a crime family. Sunny moved to investigation and then to private investigation. She is hired to find a teenage runaway. The mother seems too perfect. Sunny is pursuing an MFA nights. She still paints and lives in a loft. The missing girl, Millicent, attended a girls school. The school provided a classical education. Millicent had been missing for ten days. At the school she had no friends, no interests, no achievements.
Sunny discovered that Millicent had been to a youth shelter. The person running the shelter said that the kids seemed to have equal measures of defiance and guilt. Sunny needs her ex-husband's help to get her into areas of activity to find Millicent, (Milly). Sunny finds the girl through the connections that Richie Burke makes available to her. Since Milly isn't talking convincingly, Sunny has the the girl move in with her.
It develops that others are looking for the girl. They have to go to the mattresses and move to a friend's apartment in the South End. An interesting subtext in the story is that families teach its members how to function, and that no one seems to have taken any time to teach Milly how to function.
Parker writes that in Boston organized crime is an oxymoron. There are loose groups. When Sunny returns to her loft, she finds that it had been tossed. The insurance company sends a clean up team to the loft. Sunny is able to identify her primary interest as keeping the girl safe. Through the intervention of Richie Sunny could return to her loft and begin to solve the mystery. This is a strong and enjoyable effort by Robert Parker, writing from his strengths such as knowledge of the Boston environs and police networking.
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Title: Perish Twice by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425182150 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Death in Paradise by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425187063 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Trouble in Paradise by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0515126497 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shrink Rap by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0515136204 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Night Passage by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425183963 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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