Dark Hollow by John Connolly
I always wanted to read a John Connolly book, ever since I read a back blurb of his latest book Black Angel, at a local bookstore.
So eons later, I managed to get my hands on one of his Charlie Parker series, Dark Hollow. Which is about a series of seemingly unconnected deaths and murders that slowly tie together to form a dark coherent picture.
Interesting characters here - Charlie Parker is the typical tortured hero, tormented by the deaths of his wife and daughter - so nothing new here, but his two sidekicks, Angel and Louis, a white retired burgular and a black assasin who are by the way a gay couple, are very interesting characters and against stereotype.
Unfortunately, the pace of the book is a little bit too slow for my liking. Connolly goes through long descriptive paragraphs about the landscape and mindset of characters, and I, being an impatient bitch, have therefore little patience for it. This is not a love story, why bother with the agony?? Ain’t I shallow? Should have some sympathy for the guy who has lost his whole family.
Nevertheless, the book is not too bad, and I will be picking up more Connolly books from now on. Maybe Charlie Parker can become my new American “John Rebus”.
Rating: 3.5 boos out of 5
