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The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone, #3)
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Got this one for Christmas. I'd never read Steve Berry before. He is of the Dan Browne-Robert Ludlum ilk -- international thriller. It's good escape and the fact I've been to Venice made it even more enjoyable. High body count, interesting characters,a nasty lesbian villain and short chapters ... what more can you ask? Many of the chapters are subdivided as they change scene from one group of protagonists to the other. As the book nears the end, these changes come quicker and quicker and it all gets a little Pattersonesque.
The only thing that really bugged me is Berry's use of "she made clear" or "he made clear" as a form of attribution. Maybe once in a novel is OK, but this got to the point where you start looking for it, and that is never good.
I'm looking forward to his next one, as it starts in Garmish, Germany, where I visited the year following Venice. (Is this guy following me and writing the books I should be, or what?)
The only thing that really bugged me is Berry's use of "she made clear" or "he made clear" as a form of attribution. Maybe once in a novel is OK, but this got to the point where you start looking for it, and that is never good.
I'm looking forward to his next one, as it starts in Garmish, Germany, where I visited the year following Venice. (Is this guy following me and writing the books I should be, or what?)
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January 1, 2009
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January 9, 2009
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I'd like to know where you are going next, so I can look for appropriate books!Mary N.
Mary wrote: "I'd like to know where you are going next, so I can look for appropriate books!Mary N."How about Sgt. Preston of the RCMP. Well, I know he was in movies back in the 1940s and 50s.
Dan wrote: "Mary wrote: "I'd like to know where you are going next, so I can look for appropriate books!Mary N."How about Sgt. Preston of the RCMP. Well, I know he was in movies back in the 1940s and 50s.
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Dan wrote: "Mary wrote: "I'd like to know where you are going next, so I can look for appropriate books!
Mary N."How about Sgt. Preston of the RCMP. Well, I know he was in movies back in the 1940s and 50s.
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Mary, you predicted my trip. Just got back from the Canadian Rockies. However, the book I read was "Full Dark, No Stars," and it was four Stephen King short stories. Maybe it was signifcant in that there was so much rain there were seldom any stars out.
I don't like all the glib quips during pretty dramatic happenings.
Jan B.