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Title: The Web by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-553-57227-X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Pleasing, but not Kellerman quality
Comment: Kellerman has written better but I did like some parts of the book. If you have not read a Alex Delaware book yet, don't start with this one. If you want to start reading Kellerman read another one of his books first then go to this one. I was partially dissapointed but I'll still read him. Those looking for Milo won't find much of him in this one. It just lacked the punch that other Kellerman novels had.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sometimes you walk into webs when not expecting to
Comment: This is a worthwhile read to fill in time on a plane or somewhere. It is not a forget what's on TV, can't put down till the last page book but is a good read. Alex Delaware, his wife Robin and what they think is a dog, Spike are being kicked out of their LA rented home. Their own home will not be ready for a few months so a mysterious letter from Dr. Woodrow who lives on a small Pacific island offering Alex a few months of all accommodation expenses (Robin and Spike included) and high salary paying job for a couple months seems too good an opportunity to pass up.
At first the work seems pretty easy and the opportunities for recreation such as snorkelling quickly make Alex and Robin think they have made a pretty good decision. Giant spiders, insects, death and disgusting locals quickly make them question their decision as does bits of information Alex keeps discovering about their host and employer Dr. Woodrow. There is a cannibal serial killer living on the island and the town folk resent what is going on up in Knife Castle.
Needed another chapter at the end finalising the Ben character, as the situation is not answered involving him but apart from that, if this is a good price buy it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Slow but not without interest
Comment: This is an extremely quiet, moody book that builds interesting characters in an interesting setting, but doesn't allow much to happen to them. It was my first Kellerman book, and despite my 2-star review, it won't be my last. Ideally, I'd have given it 2.5 stars. It's better than two, but not up to three.
Don't read this book for the mystery. The story deals with an extremely shocking crime, but somehow, the answer to, "Who done it?" is a big, "Who cares?" I think the problem is that the shocking mystery has an extremely pedestrian solution, producing an imbalance between the murder and its solution. That imbalance-which you can sense coming 100 pages in advance--pulls most of the tension out of the plot.
Far more interesting are the book's sub-themes. Kellerman-presumably because of his psychological training-is an astute observer of the dysfunctional manners in which people often interact. And this book is full of dysfunctional relationships, ranging from an embattled couple to an oddly disengaged father/daughter relationship. All of this plays eventually into the finale, but I found watching these people in action to be much more interesting than wondering about what secrets they were hiding.
One note, though, struck badly-not falsely, but irritatingly, in a way I fear might be characteristic of the series. Kellerman's psychologist-detective, Alex, is always addressing other characters by their first names, as in: "I don't think I can do that, Bill," or "Why do you ask, Jo?" That type of first-name engagement helps the reader keep abreast of who's speaking, and it rings true for the psychologist character, but it feels very aggressive. It's as though Alex, by the false intimacy of calling everyone by their first names, is always trying to provoke them. Or maybe he's continuously "shrinking" them. Whatever the reason, after a while I wanted someone to stand up to Alex and make him stop doing it. Since he's otherwise one of the nicer-guy heroes in the detective genre, it's a particularly irritating habit.
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Title: The Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553563521 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Self-Defense by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458834 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458842 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Private Eyes by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460707 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553569635 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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