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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)

Jeffery Deaver

Start date: April 1, 2010

Finish date: April 30, 2010

Discussion: Chapter 4: Mystery

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Jan 23, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it liked it

Shelves: ultimate-reading-list, crime, fiction, novels, mystery, contemporary, historical-fiction

I was tempted to give up when I hit this piece of description of the female cop, Amelia Sachs, on page 23: Her Julia Roberts lips grew taut. Her incredible beauty is described ad nauseum in the novel--we're told at one point she has "iridescent blue eyes." And Sachs came off early on to me as incredibly whiny--but she did grow on me.

She's partnered with Lincoln Rhymes, a quadriplegic who was a top criminologist in the New York Police Department before his accident, to be his eyes and ears, a si ...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Tara Lynn rated it really liked it

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Huh.

I was definitely more impressed than I thought I would be. If you can ignore the slightly formulaic plot, and some of the more 2-dimensional characters, you might really enjoy this first book in the Lincoln Rhyme novels. It's fast paced, and forces you to think at points. It's definitely a quick easy read, but I think there's enough established here to make me want to follow up with the other books in the series.

Side note: Ignore the movie based on this book completely; it's a waste of tim ...more

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