City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)

City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

New York Times Bestseller
Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border).
Hollywood.
The city where dreams are made.
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life.
A quiet, peaceful existence.
But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.
And when Hollywood starts shooting a film based on his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.
Then he falls in love.
With a beautiful movie star who has a dark past of her own.
As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born.
Or where they go to die.
From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
352
Preis
17.50 €

Beiträge

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[3.75] First of all, Don Winslow is one of my all time favourite authors and I won’t ever not pick up one of his releases because his style and the gut-heart-organ-wrenching stories he weaves with his characters are just perfect for me. I never know what happens next and that is a unique selling point for an adhd-brain who has read too many stories not to see where some plotlines are going. This installment, loosely seen as a retelling of the odyssee (which is so fascinating to me, honestly, because you can see it, but he doesn’t hit you in the face with it every other page), does suffer under second book in a trilogy syndrome somehow. I know, it does fit the odyssee retelling part again, because a lot of that is waiting and suffering, too, but while I imagined this to pick up right where we left off not only in terms of plot (which he did) but also in regard to tension, it fell a little bit short for me. Where I was heartwrenchingly involved in the plot of the first book, not knowing which character I hope gets his HEA and which doesn’t deserve it (let’s be honest, none of them do, but what are we if not absolutely biased as readers), this book left me hanging dry a bit because while I was intrigued, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, waiting for the next blow to fall and push all of the characters closer to their own personal misery. It's still a good book, for sure! And it does leave me incredibly anxious for the pain waiting in the final instalment of this series, because that’s going to be pure agony and I know it. But there was just this bit of a spark missing that I love so much about Don Winslow’s other works.

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