Well, I know all of my two readers are eagerly awaiting to find out what I thought of Hostage. Kept up the pacing, kept up the suspense …. but, I’m not sure how satisfying the ending was.
I don’t know how he could’ve resolved everything differently than he did without going into melodrama, so he ended it right. But I didn’t fear for a second that anything else was going to happen.
All in all, tho–great read. Crais is capable of better, but it was still pretty good.
1. Someone in IRC just pointed me at ShadowPDF.net, a collection of classic pulps of The Shadow. Takes me back to when I was a kid and listened to the radio shows on tape/radio . . . too cool.
2. Update on Hostage. I was very tempted to pull an all nighter for this one. It’s very different in flavor and pacing than the Elvis Cole series. I’ve stopped missing them, and have been drawn into Chief Tulley’s world. The set up Crais creates in the first hundred pages or so is brilliant. This is all going to go horribly, horribly bad. Which means it will be incredibly fun to read. Only question is how dark Crais will let it go . . . .
my guess is very.
Started Robert Crais’ Hostage last night. I didn’t get very far into it before my arch-nemesis, Sleep, won another round in our ongoing battle.
First stand-alone novel I’ve read by him. I can already tell I’m going to miss Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Not that it’s a bad book–but any novel that opens up with a double-murder/suicuide could really use some old friends in it to help you cope, y’know?
Ohh, while writing this I read that the movie based on this book started filming a couple of weeks ago. Bruce Willis stars. That could be cool….
Well, like so many, many Americans (and Brits and maybe even the Canadians) ) my family was at Barnes & Noble at midnight. Following a church activity, we didn’t have time to deposit the kids anywhere, so at 10 o’clock my 4, 3, and 1 yr old come tromping into the Harry Potter party.
Now all my kids know about Harry is that mommy and daddy really like him, and they’ve seen the trailers for the movies on some of their videos. But they got caught up in all the excitement–the boys got lightning bolts painted on their foreheads, got their picture taken with a cardboard Harry, etc. And all the people dressed up in costumes! Too cool.
It was actually pretty neat–I wish we weren’t carrying tired kids around so we could’ve really gotten into things, but there was a good atmosphere. Okay, I talked to one clerk who was very happy that, unlike The Goblet of Fire she was working on the cash register end–“the happy end”–wherein she was dealing with people who had books. Last time around she had to deal with those ninnies who didn’t preorder, and therefore didn’t get a book (how insane do you have to be to actually think for a nanosecond that you’re going to get a book like this by just walking in from the street with hundreds of crazed fans already in the store?) Oh yeah, I was talking about the nice atmosphere.
All these kids (10-60 in age) assembled to get their hands on a book–to be excited about reading a book. I know, I know this keeps getting brought up as one of the positive things about the series, but it was very satisfying to see this much interest in something that didn’t feature CGI.
Anyhow, we had fun–the kids got an interesting experience, and a nap in the van–
and we got the book
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