Dragonfire, by Bill Pronzini
Nov. 25th, 2008 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSeems like I'm finishing tons of books lately; of course the other two that I completed recently had each taken me weeks to finish (as opposed to this one which took a pretty typical three days).
Dragonfire is the ninth Nameless Detective book, and I'm quite happy to see that a series that I was about to give up on (though it feels weird to talk about giving up on a series based on books written 25 years ago, when I was in Jr. High) has turned a corner. Or, at least, it had a good book.
The strength of Nameless Detective is the characters, and this has that in spades, with ND going through a major philosophical breakdown and also having great interactions with his (current) girlfriend and his best friend.
The weakness of Nameless Detective over the last couple of books has been Pronzini's sudden obsessions with puzzles and locked-door mysteries. There aren't any here. Just a good old-fashioned shooting and the places that it leads (through real detective work, not just thinking).
I've got the next two ND books sitting around to read, possibly over the course of this upcoming long weekend.
Dragonfire is the ninth Nameless Detective book, and I'm quite happy to see that a series that I was about to give up on (though it feels weird to talk about giving up on a series based on books written 25 years ago, when I was in Jr. High) has turned a corner. Or, at least, it had a good book.
The strength of Nameless Detective is the characters, and this has that in spades, with ND going through a major philosophical breakdown and also having great interactions with his (current) girlfriend and his best friend.
The weakness of Nameless Detective over the last couple of books has been Pronzini's sudden obsessions with puzzles and locked-door mysteries. There aren't any here. Just a good old-fashioned shooting and the places that it leads (through real detective work, not just thinking).
I've got the next two ND books sitting around to read, possibly over the course of this upcoming long weekend.