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I was promised a were-shark, a dragoness, a gay merman, lots of sex -- and ALL PROMISES WERE KEPT. Now I have to go buy the other books.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğru Tercih Yayınları
This is one of the most captivating studies in human nature I’ve read in quite some time. I highly recommend it. Clay Carter is a hard-working guy at the DC public defender’s office. He’s been there five years as this book opens, and he’s about to get a murder case in spite of his experience at ducking them. This turns out to be anything but a routine street drug murder in what is arguably the most simultaneously tragic and triumphant city in the nation. Young Tequila Watson is no stranger to violence, but he abhors committing violence on others. He was a cocaine addict until he was thrust into a last-chance rehabilitation facility. All that is public knowledge, and it’s knowledge that Clay Carter comes by easily enough. What Clay doesn’t know initially is that Tequila Watson was secretly medicated in the rehabilitation facility with a drug designed to destroy forever his addiction to cocaine. It worked. But it had one rather unfortunate side effect. It drove some of its users to mindlessly commit murder. They were quite literally driven to kill by forces unleashed by the drug. That’s the part Clay Carter learns later. He is approached by a mysterious man who has information about the drug—information that, if used in a lawsuit against the drug’s manufacturer, could result in a huge settlement for the lawyer bright and alert enough to take the case. When Clay Carter reaches that fateful crossroad in his life—the one in which he must decide between integrity and money—he opts for the money. The case against the drug company is settled quickly. The victims of the several people murdered by those who took the drug are, if not eager, then at least resigned to accept the settlement money Clay is able to get for them. Clay Carter’s dizzying journey from anonymity and relative poverty to dazzling riches and being crowned the king of torts by his colleagues is an entirely believable one. Grisham in his always interesting style crafts that journey in such a way that even the most uninformed among us regarding the legal system can see the path poor Clay Carter takes. The romantic subplot here merely serves to further show the contrasts between the decent public defender and the money-grubbing greedy shallow Clay Carter who buys fancy houses, fancy airplanes, and who salts away huge chunks of money offshore. At one point in the book, Clay gets a forlorn letter from Tequila Watson, whose case he abruptly abandoned to take on his new life of wealth and power—a letter Clay doesn’t even bother to answer. But as Clay’s former attorney father warns him, the greed catches up to him. Just as Clay’s ascent into the rarified air of wealth and accolades is dizzying and dazzling, so his descent into financial ruin is equally breathtaking. This is also a damning portrait of the legal system and its quest for power and money sometimes at the expense of ordinary folk who know little or nothing about how it works. So well is Clay Carter’s character developed that even in his shallowest and worst, some part of your heart remains with him; some part of you hopes for his redemption, even though such redemption seems remotely possible at best throughout much of the book. There is a gripping immediacy to this book that you usually find in high-drama suspense stories. There’s really nothing suspenseful about the book, but you’ll be riveted by its fast-moving plot nonetheless. It’s a plot I found highly believable and remarkably devoid of the need for tangential explanations of the legal system to the uninformed such as I am. It’s so well written that you won’t get lost in any legal minutia; and yet, it is a tale of such intricacy that you will come away thoroughly impressed at this author’s ability to weave its components together into a truly fascinating and thoughtful study in character, in human nature, in the concept of a fall and that fall’s accompanying need for redemption.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Carlos
Pedantic in tone and overly simplistic in content, this book reads like Townsend/Cloud intended it for a high school youth group, not functioning adults. Most who kissed Fundamentalist Christianity goodbye long ago probably won't choose to read this anyway.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gür Yayınları
Odds Against is the first of Dick Francis' books featuring former champion steeplechase jockey Sid Halley. Although you'll sometimes see them referred to as the Sid Halley "series", the fact is that all four of them stand alone perfectly well. (One way or another, you'll want to read them all, so I guess it doesn't matter too much.) In Odds Against, Sid has already suffered his career-ending injury: a passing horse wearing a worn-down racing shoe stepped on his arm after he had fallen during a race, slashing the tendons irreparably and leaving the now-healed arm withered and useless. The injury that robbed him of his beloved racing was the second blow - his wife, feeling like a superfluous appliance in the life of self-sufficient Sid, ended their marriage only months before his accident. Through a friend, Sid has gotten a job working for investigators Hunt Radnor Associates, although he doesn't have much enthusiasm for anything. On a stakeout for Hunt Radnor, Sid gets shot, and is invited to recuperate at the home of his former father-in-law, Charles, with whom he has maintained a close relationship. Once there, Sid quickly realizes that Charles has brought him there not only to heal his gunshot wound, but to act as bait for a couple who may be involved in an attempt to ruin a local racecourse, in order to snap up the land for development. Unfortunately, it also puts Sid in harm's way yet again - not Charles' intention at all, but sometimes a threat to what one has left when they think they've lost everything can be the needed spark to bring that hidden self back to life.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kanat Kitap
Exciting and confusing all at the same time. I had to keep going in hopes that it would soon all make sense. It probably would have been better to read this book closer to the first, 100 Cupboards.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Patika Kitap
I loved this book! Psychotic killer and a love story to boot. Really I couldn't ask for more. This book was full of suspense and I was so shocked when the killer was revealed. I honestly didn't see this plot twist coming. Which as an avid reader it's hard to find something like this. All the books I've read by Karen Rose have been shocking an amazing. This is an author with a true talent. However, I wish I could figure out the proper reading order of the books that involve the the Regan family.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İkinci Adam Yayınları
A very quick, enjoyable read. It was a good coming of age story and I loved the Calendar sisters. They really jumped off the page for me, especially August. Now I want to eat more honey!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gündoğan Yayınları
I really liked this book. It kept me reading and wanting to read through every page, for I very much wanted to know how this beautiful seventeen-year-old girl was going to break the "impossible" curse she and her female ancestors were trapped under. The book as well as the resolution was a little too "fantastic" for my preference, but all in all, a good read. I'd definitely recommend it to other readers.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
Great story always will be a classic
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
Not quite as good as Ender's Game, but still pretty good.
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