Monday, July 6, 2009

Relentless; Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Dean Koontz's latest, "Relentless", was one of his better newer offerings. I liked it. Cubby, a novelist, gets a bad review from Shearman Waxx, and of course it bugs him. Then strange things start happening to Cubby and his family, and he finds out there are other novelists who also got bad reviews from Waxx and had their whole families wiped out. Cubby and his family go on the run in pursuit of evidence against Waxx. The characters in this one were pretty memorable and believable, unlike some of his more recent books.
"Finger Lickin' Fifteen" is Janet Evanovich's latest, and seriously I haven't really enjoyed the Stephanie Plum series since number 11. This one was kind of blah. A famous television chef is murdered and Lula witnesses the whole thing, so now the killers are after her. Morelli wasn't really in this one, and while she's staying at Ranger's apartment nothing happens between them. Boring! The fire bombs and cars blowing up is also getting to be a little repetitive and tedious. So why do I keep reading them? I don't know.

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