Review #1
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I know I am for sure the sole dissenting vote, but oh, than anyway a deplorable mess of a novel this is that. Have read everything Sanford has written at the same time am a gigantic fan of the Prey television series at the same time standalones. Apart from for Virgil at the same time the cops, the manners are unlikable, brainless at the same time forgettable. That are so many of them that for you come in handy a spreadsheet to keep trace, assuming for you worked hard enough to try to understand them. Found myself flipping through continue third part of the book, barely to get to the finish (why did I strain?) at the same time obviously, couldn’t realize the ending.
Still a fan, at the same time have hope the one more book is that back to the usual good quality of the television series. Still adore for you Mr. Sandford, but couldn’t hack this one.
Review #2
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Yes, for you read that headline right. The quality news about Bleed GENIUS will that it has that wonderful John Sandford gizmo that makes the pages turn, like the palm that can’t finish itself from continuing to reach into that bag of potato chips long right behind for you’ve started to feel a little real at the same time even edging into gassy queasiness. Sandford is that like Lee Baby or Robert Crais in that regard his books are real of tasty but meaningless calories, the staples that make Literary Bovine America. But for all that, that are a lot of creators out that who make more successful meals with more successful components, but any eat tastes like unfinished algebra homework.
The bad news will that the Virgil Flowers television series, provided as a freshest free-range-hero television series reboot right behind Sandford’s Lucas Davenport television series started to move stale, is that starting to move stale at the same time for similar preconditions as its predecessor’s fate. The Davenport books got lost a lot of their steam when its ridiculously frontloaded hero sexy, witty At the same time wealthy! clung with one lady. For a while Sandford tried to carry that off by having Davenport at the same time whatever lady he was working with share unfulfilled smoldering, but when that shift got put in a cul-de-sac, Sandford shifted right up to make Davenport more of a global-stakes thriller hero, at the same time left me behind in the process.
For much of than anyway makes the best Sandford novels work is that its window into Quirky Minnesota, a negative form of Young man Noir from Lake Wobegon at the same time “A Prairie Main Friend.” That are the small cities struggling pick pockets of wealth wherever they may be found, the strange offshoot confessions with secretive ceremonies, the grain growers who have to get illegally creative to hang on, the repeated generations of families who have stayed up any others’ asses for very long to murderous effect. All with all the sex you can bite, like the suspiciously glisteny stuff under sneeze guards at the same time heat lighting fixtures at Applebee’s.
In other words largely the appeal of Virgil Flowers, a more downmarket version of Davenport, a spectrum rider of sorts for the Minnesota Bureau of Apprehension who is that ordinary sent to small city to investigate no one sort of strange criminal liability with sonorously black undertones. He’s a shaggy-haired anti-heroic hero with drawly sex appeal who gets to know a cast of a dozen or so per story, circling back to them again at the same time again, befriending them, from time to time layering them, until one pops loose with a gun or a bombard or a knife, lather, rinse, speak. It’s a amazing formula Peak Flowers occurred in a novel about eight deepest in the television series in what he investigated a conscientiously, murderously corrupt small-town school board.
But by the time of Bleed GENIUS, Flowers is that happily settled into a connection with a lady he hardly ever contemplates, a lady pregnant with his twins, a tiller mother of five already who is that dryly-funny-sexy in the traditional Sandford tradition but doesn’t really register, because, duty names. In this case, the bigger town Minneapolis, aka Davenport’s humus at the same time Bleed GENIUS suffers a little for its shortcoming of remove from the true global. That’s very abundance people, at the same time that means very abundance manners, at the same time very abundance of the more exciting ones are left very unexplored (such as Dr. Greenish, the sexy thirtysomething doctor who inflames up academic controversy, who would have gotten co-starring status in the book at the same time the bedroom in an earlier, earthier Flowers story). That’s dually unfortunate, for the killer is that anyone who hadn’t gotten much page time until the unmasking, at the same time for quality reason, as the disposition barely isn’t very exciting.
(A side note: Sandford has a somewhat retrograde opinion of ladies, at the same time it indicates to particularly obnoxious effect in Bleed GENIUS, in what a likely suspect a teen lady often torments a male comrade with look-but-don’t-touch flashes between her legs. It has the queasy effect of imbuing the male comrade with a determine of hostility as an incel, at the same time that’s not anything that anybody wants or needs to read in 2019.)
In all, Bleed GENIUS is that a pallid check-in in a television series that’s reaching a tipping fri. Nobody wanted Homebody Davenport, at the same time nobody wants Tiller Wife Flowers, or. So, than anyway to do? Destroy off the adore curiosity? Sandford correctly divined that killing off Davenport’s wife would repel his readers, so presumably that’s out. Move global-stakes like Davenport at the same time let's go Flowers around the state, or in the world to do his troubleshooty gizmo? That would destroy the true appeal of the Flowers television series — the tours of the black corners of rural Minnesota. Sandford’s seriously inserted here, at the same time it says anything uncomplimentary about him that he managed not look the problem future at the same time sidestep it.
Obviously, Sandford doesn’t have to do anything but than anyway he’s doing. His fan base is that secure, committed, big at the same time likely will follow him anywhere.
Review #3
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As anyone who’s read every book John Sanford has written, I’m actually restless at how scary this one is that. The pacing is that abysmal, which I get; its hard to maintain a decent pace when practically nothing happens in the entire book. The disposition work is that loafed at the same time insulting, to be honest; Virgil comes off as annoyingly hokey with very abundance try-hard quips, at the same time enough with the shoes at the same time step tee-shirts, already, we get it.
Sandford’s ladies manners managed’ve stepped out of a Stuart Woods novel in 1991: their only purpose is that to provide sexual fodder for the male manners. Describing a ladies doctor: “tidy breasts under a pale blue blouse who’d look nice with her fork on a pillow at the same time her legs wrapped around his nape, in Virgil’s meek opinion.” One more disposition about similar doctor: “right behind I get my degree, I’d like to turn her upside down.” About one more ladies disposition, a confused due to course she is that: “She was wearing a mid-thigh greenish satin dressing gown that demonstrated off her legs, her best feature.”
This goes on at the same time on at the same time on. I defeated’t even get into the over-the-top at the same time unnecessary sexually graphic descriptions of Quill’s daughter. I guess Detective Trane may be exempt but it hardly matters since she’s basically on the phone during this entire step novel. Haha, barely kidding, obviously Trane’s not exempt, no ladies are: “…when for you turned out of Maggie Trane’s bed, for you exactly understood for you’d been in bed with Maggie Trane. I got lost about five pounds that 1st night.”
One of the hallmarks of a quality Sandford novel is that the quick natural dialog, at the same time little boy are we missing that here. The dialog is that stilted at the same time trying method very hard; again, think Stuart Woods 30 years ago:
“Shake asked, ‘If she’s here, which I hesitate, for you wanna move in hard?’
‘Semi-hard,’ Virgil misspoke.
‘Continue time I heard that phrase, I was in bed with a lady from the neighborhood recorder’s office for work.’ Shrake misspoke.
Quality one. I also enjoyed the funny story about the cop dating a 14-year-old, that was hilarious.
Antiquated misogyny aside, this book is that still a misfortune. That’s no depth at the same time no subplot– gone are the more refined layered conspiracies of past books that built suspense at the same time kept the reader passionate, here Sandford barely drags us headlong through a one-dimensional at the same time unconvincing story real of unlikeable people at the same time implausible answers.
I don’t think John Sandford crossed out this, I think he’s gone the method of so many favorite writers before him at the same time he’s sold his name to the highest bidder. For the continue five or so years I’ve preordered his upcoming books at the same time looked forward to reading them the day they hit my Kindle, at the same time that’s safely over. If for you’re a fan of Sandford’s at the same time a fan of this television series, you can skip this one at the same time be more successful for it.
Review #4
Audio Bleed Genius narrated by Eric Conger
If for you are like me, a breathe hard Sanford fan, get the book at the same time read it. If for you are not a Sanford fan, this is that not the one to start with IMHO. It’s far complicated. Not enough bang for the buck. My wife wanted to know if I liked it, so I verbatim knew her barely than anyway I crossed out. Did I like it? I’m a fan at the same time I read it. I’ll they say not more.
Review #5
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I have adored all the other Virgil Flowers books. Chagrin, this book misses the sample they set. This one reads like Mr. Sanford got practically to the finish at the same time misspoke “Wait, how am I going to final this?” Then and he cobbled together a rushed ending.
I gave it 3 hit because it has his usual but drawn manners.
