it was ok, some great some not at all. my least favorite of his so far. Too much violence for my taste but Lehane remains a great storyteller.
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Inferno, DanteThese books crawl under my skin. I always feel brave and strong while reading them because I seem to stomach everything but oh, look at how dumb you are, Anna. They linge...
I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. Say it rained in Dallas and so Kennedy didn't ride in a convertible. Stalin stayed in the seminary. Say you and me, Sean, say we got in that car with Dave Boyle. A horrible murder is co...
È inutile che io cerchi di essere obiettiva con Lehane.Ritrovare il binomio Kenzie-Gennaro dopo due mesi e passa è il calore in persona. Non che loro abbiano da offrire thé, pasticcini e chiacchierate su quanto sia bella la vita, ma è bello sapere che dopo una giornata scolastica sfiancante andra...
"What had begun as a nighttime ride into the unknown had turned cold and stale during the hard yellow lurch into morning" (34).“The man’s eyes are the clear and the bright of skyscraper panes” (58).“…a guy in a johnny leading his IV-stand across the carpet as if it’s a slow relative…” (63).“Thoug...
A little disclosure: I think Dennis Lehane is perhaps the best crime writer in the last 50 years. I love this guy and have read almost everything he's every written (there are literally only two books by him left and one them is Mystic River which I've seen the film version of like 10 times). I...
*3.5 Stars* Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.There have b...