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love Ballard, not the best of the series

Commenté en France le 27 janvier 2022

Connelly has created a great character with Ballard, a woman night cop with a serious attitude. Here she works again with Harry Bosch, who is not the main character, like in the first 3 books in the series. The plot is about 2 independent cases, and I won't spoil it. It is nice to read about LAPD and LA itself under the pandemic, this is a new angle to the usual procedural investigations. Not so much action here, although Ballard does send a few to the burial ground. Still, I read it in a couple of days, the writing is always kinematic and you just can't put it down. LAPD politics seem to be once again pretty well described but what do I know. Very good stuff, if not his best but ... Connelly's worst woud be many thriller writers best I guess, having read all the books.

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Commenté en France le 21 décembre 2021

J'avais adoré les premiers Ballard, mais je trouve que Connelly en rajoute des tonnes dans ce volume sur la victimisation des femmes, avec un penchant "me too" qui a tout du toutou suiveur. Idéologiquement c'est un livre marqué, comme certains des précédents ouvrages de l'auteur, qui fait trop de politique à mon gout. Et pour une fois malheureusement ça se ressent beaucoup trop sur les intrigues, car elles manquent considérablement de crédibilité. Le personnage de Ballard est souvent à la limite d'être antipathique et le rôle de Bosch est réduit à la portion congrue. (Il ne sert quasiment à rien dans ce livre et son comportement à la fin du livre est pour le moins incohérent avec sa personnalité.)
Après, c'est toujours du Connelly, ça reste bien construit et agréable à lire. Mais ce côté "je suis dans le camp du bien, regardez comme les hommes c'est des vilains alors que les femmes elles sont toutes des gentilles victimes" est franchement lourdaud et m'a gâché mon plaisir de lecture.
Je ne lui en tiens pas rigueur, ça reste mon auteur favori. Mais il va lui falloir prendre un grand bol d'air post-covid et repartir du bon pied.

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Zax

A Lazy Book

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 18 janvier 2022

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23 Books in (Bosch then Bosch/Ballard), it’s bound to go a bit ‘flat’ - if you let it….
This book isn’t really about anything.
There’s a murder on Ballards watch which ties in with an unsolved of Bosch’s - hence the two ‘teaming’ up and then a second serial sex crime case that sort of involves both the protagonists.
There’s alot of commentary on the way the LAPD is going, mention of the election insurrection and the pandemic.
It’s really slow and tedious one lot of ‘undesirables’ is to do with dentists, reading this is like having a tooth pulled…
The murder case ‘solve’, isn’t clever, intriguing or even interesting.
The other case is rather bizarre, but not in a good way.
Some of the books in this series have been absolutely brilliant.
This feels a bit like a successful author ‘going through the motions’.
It’s Lazy, and giving it any more stars (as most reviewers have) is absurd.
Connelly should be ashamed it’s been published ‘as is’, is a rough draft copy at best.
Avoid.

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David T.

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Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 25 janvier 2022

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Good job I checked !!! You overcharged me by £9...........

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Rick L.

Wokeism Rears Its Ugly Head

Commenté aux États-Unis le 12 novembre 2021

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I stopped reading after Chapter 8. I've been a big Harry Bosch fan from the beginning, but this is a downhill slid. Ballard is annoying, Bosch is a side story, and Connelly just has to go down the Covid, mask, vax road. And, yikes! Bosch is listening to the king of woke John Legend?

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JBR

Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face

Commenté aux États-Unis le 13 novembre 2021

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I have read all of Connelly’s books with the exception of the last Lincoln Lawyer novel, and I have always enjoyed them. I read the reviews for that one before purchase, and refrained due to the large number of reviewers stating that Connelly had turned political. I hoped he would not do that with Bosch/Ballard. He did. Connelly clearly now has an agenda, and included unverified reports (and a now-disproved one) about J6 as fact, while walking the tightrope to vilify one-half of the country, without actually naming them. Also, it is difficult to read more than 5 pages without being confronted with another statement along the lines of “Ballard raised her mask before exiting the vehicle” or “The other officers were not wearing mask, which frustrated Ballard, though she made no comment”. I read fiction to escape the ridiculous junk going on around us, not to pay for the privilege and waste my time with it being further shoved down my throat. As one commenter previously posted, I feel this book will not age well. I hope he eases up on the politics in future books, but it is probably more likely his path is now set in stone. I won’t know......I won’t buy another Connelly book.

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Commenté aux États-Unis le 17 novembre 2021

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I have enjoyed Connelly over the years, but his last book and this one are filled with politics, the woke kind, that I am sick of hearing about let alone reading in what should be a good, solid, mystery.
Some advise to Mr. Connelly, leave your political views out of your books, they are yours and you are entitled to them but you don't have a lock on the only View that matters, because if you think you do then you are only writing propaganda,, not the good fiction you are more then capable of.

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cathywithac

Connelly's gone woke. Don't bother unless you're a Democrat.

Commenté aux États-Unis le 3 décembre 2021

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I've read every book in the Bosch series, and the Ballard series. No more. This book is a piece of woke garbage. If you believe that Covid is the deadliest plague, and that January 6th was the darkest day in American history, this book is for you.
Those of us with critical thinking skills aren't impressed. I don't need to read about Ballard putting on her mask every other paragraph, or more Covid propaganda. Such a disappointment.

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Kindle Customer Sharon Tripp

Disappointing

Commenté aux États-Unis le 30 novembre 2021

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While I sure the author's politics haven't changed, this is the first time he crammed them down our throats. My husband and I have read all the Bosch books and we were fans. While my husband didn't like the first Ballard book, I did, but that changed with this book. So we have a gutsy female detective who is an absolute wimp about Covid. She is totally freaked out if someone doesn't wear a mask, got news Renee, that LAPD cloth mask does nothing to protect you. The vac, probably more likely to give you unpleasant side effects at your age than keep you from getting Covid, again!
I feel like Connelly is just pandering to the
left and BLM which is responsible for the defund the police movement as well as the murder of cops and innocent people.
This is the last Connelly book I will read, but whoo whoo, Michael, maybe you will get invited to the Biden Whitehouse. Sure you'd love that although for many of us that would be a boring fate worse than death.

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ABZ

One of the worst book of Ballard/Bosch series

Commenté aux États-Unis le 13 novembre 2021

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Perhaps Connelly felt compelled to publish an “real-time” novel quickly. I was looking forward to this book as much as disappointed when finally read it: started with political propaganda, followed by completely out-of-character decisions and acts of main characters, with unrealistic descriptions of Covid-related discussions and workplace scenarios, ending somewhat abruptly, without explaining decisions or methods… Really not the best of series.

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Knowname

Connelly committed literal literary suicide

Commenté aux États-Unis le 22 novembre 2021

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I have enjoyed Connelly's books for many years. But when he decided to literally "kill-off" his bread and butter, Bosch, by retiring him, he gave his fans the one-finger salute. Bosch had depth, but Ballard and others have no redeeming qualities to follow and anticipate. This book was a gift to me as I would not pay for any non-bosch character. I agree with others that connelly is confused about society and the political players bumbling of covid. He has no idea of what actually goes on outside his privileged existence. He has lost a fan.

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J n P

Connelly is pushing an agenda, who needs that?

Commenté aux États-Unis le 4 décembre 2021

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Ballard is annoying, Bosch is basically a side story, this book starts on the covid, mask, vaccine agenda and doesn't let up. It is difficult to read more than 5 pages without another statement along the lines of “Ballard raised her mask before exiting the vehicle” or “The other officers were not wearing mask, which frustrated Ballard, though she made no comment” How does that enhance the story?
All of the covid references are behind the times. Connelly is pushing an agenda and I don't need it. It was hard to read with all of the unnecessary conversations that take place in a work of fiction.

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