The Cabinet of Curiosities (Agent Pendergast Series, 3)
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Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
The nightmare has begun.
Again.
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It's been years and years since I read this book for the first time and I didn't remember much of it, so I thought, I'd give this another whirl. If you're looking for a thriller to turn off your brain and enjoy the ride, you're going to have fun with this. But that's as far as it went for me. While I loved the first book in the series and enjoyed the second, I had to put this one down more than once to roll my eyes. Especially on the technical parts, there were so many things which annoyed me. The head-hopping between characters in one scene without rhyme or reason, a LOT of telling rather than showing (hello multi-page explanation of everything that happened in the epilogue), a lot of inner workings of the characters were repetitive and placed at bad spots in the scene design. The writing sometimes felt really stinted, too, but that might have been the translation I have been reading, same goes for the formatting so front to the authors there (I think). A big front does go to what I found to be very lazy writing. The first two parts of the series had a tinge of supernatural, just the right amount, and SA Pendergast was like a modern Sherlock Holmes and a lot of fun. Solving critical points in his case through meditative time travel though... sorry, but that's not for me. Same goes for the logical connections and time frames in this book, which were just completely off and confusing in places where it took me out of the scene because I just didn't know what was going on now or whether the authors had just changed their mind halfway through. The characters I found mostly unenjoyable and annoying - especially Smithback drove me to a point where he ruined a scene for me by merely being in it. The police was painted in SUCH a bad and incompetent light throughout that it made me smh but then we were denied the satisfaction of seeing the Captain in charge put in his place, despite several chapters of build-up to that moment. Why? Although this all sounds harsh, it IS an enjoyable and quick read if you don't go deeper than the surface. If you are interested in the construction of a thriller, placing red herrings and the methodical parts of writing... maybe this isn't for you.
Description
Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
The nightmare has begun.
Again.
Book Information
Posts
It's been years and years since I read this book for the first time and I didn't remember much of it, so I thought, I'd give this another whirl. If you're looking for a thriller to turn off your brain and enjoy the ride, you're going to have fun with this. But that's as far as it went for me. While I loved the first book in the series and enjoyed the second, I had to put this one down more than once to roll my eyes. Especially on the technical parts, there were so many things which annoyed me. The head-hopping between characters in one scene without rhyme or reason, a LOT of telling rather than showing (hello multi-page explanation of everything that happened in the epilogue), a lot of inner workings of the characters were repetitive and placed at bad spots in the scene design. The writing sometimes felt really stinted, too, but that might have been the translation I have been reading, same goes for the formatting so front to the authors there (I think). A big front does go to what I found to be very lazy writing. The first two parts of the series had a tinge of supernatural, just the right amount, and SA Pendergast was like a modern Sherlock Holmes and a lot of fun. Solving critical points in his case through meditative time travel though... sorry, but that's not for me. Same goes for the logical connections and time frames in this book, which were just completely off and confusing in places where it took me out of the scene because I just didn't know what was going on now or whether the authors had just changed their mind halfway through. The characters I found mostly unenjoyable and annoying - especially Smithback drove me to a point where he ruined a scene for me by merely being in it. The police was painted in SUCH a bad and incompetent light throughout that it made me smh but then we were denied the satisfaction of seeing the Captain in charge put in his place, despite several chapters of build-up to that moment. Why? Although this all sounds harsh, it IS an enjoyable and quick read if you don't go deeper than the surface. If you are interested in the construction of a thriller, placing red herrings and the methodical parts of writing... maybe this isn't for you.