Book: ‘Specialists’ by Lawrence Block – October 19th, 2017
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.19, 2017, under Books
Specialists by Lawrence Block
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The characters are initially well handled and then given short shrift at the end. Scantily drawn. This is especially bad at the end when structures become important.series tales, but the plotting stinks. Seems to me Block had a much larger vision, maybe even starting his own series, and as he got near the end, he sliced his efforts to minimum, finished off the book and went on the to the next.
After a build up of a collection of new characters and their various abilities, they are collected to complete a mission that is then written off quickly to the point I wasn’t really sure if they actually met whatever goal they were trying to make.
The story is an odd case of vengeance involving important a treatment of a woman that ends up an effort to destroy the person involved but really ends with something different. I found the ending very unsatisfying.
The characters are initially well handled and then given short shrift at the end. Scantily drawn. This is especially bad at the end when structures become important.
Bottom line: i don’t recommend this book. 4 out of 10 points.
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