Dark Pursuit Brandilyn Collins Books
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"Ever hear the dead knocking?"
Novelist Darell Brooke lived for his title as King of Suspense - until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he wants one thing; to plot a new novel and regain his reputation. Kaitlan Sering, his twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, once lived for drugs. After she stole from Darell, he cut her off. Now she's rebuilding her life.
But in Kaitlan's town two women have been murdered, and she is about to discover a third. She's even more shocked to realize the culprit is her boyfriend, Craig, the police chief's son. Desperate, Kaitlan flees to her estranged grandfather. For over forty years, Darell Brooke has lived suspense. Surely he'll devise a plan to trap the cunning Craig.
Can Darell's muddled mind do it? And - if he tries - with what motivation? For Kaitlan's plight may be the stunning answer to the elusive plot he seeks...
Dark Pursuit Brandilyn Collins Books
Another seatbelt suspense. I've lower my usual five star rating to a three star. I did this because the whole story just didn't hit the usual grand apex I've come to enjoy. The main character, Kaitlin, is a week character. To have a druggie on the streets in LA, she'd be street smart. Yet she didn't act accordingly when she discovered the body. She was a strong person to quit rugs, get a drivers license, push for grant to go back to school... She was a street kid who worked hard to earn a better life. Then when she has a better life and finds a dead body on her bed, what happens? The street smarts disappear along with the strong character she was supposed to be. I did have a feeling about who the murderer was, and it turned out I was right. And then, the story just abruptly ends with a scene of her grandfather, not her. The story cuts off way too quickly. Too many thing were left the the reader's imagination instead of have full closure. I absolutely LOVE Brandilyn Collins. But I am disappointed with this one.Product details
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Dark Pursuit Brandilyn Collins Books Reviews
"It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy, 1947-
Twain knew it. Clancy knows it. Collins needs to learn it.
This is the second Brandilyn Collins book I've read and it's become clear that while I think she has a certain style of writing that's compelling, I have some intrinsic issues with the stories she tells. In Dark Pursuit those issues are the very foundations of a book the premise, plot, and character actions, which in this case vacillate between inane and ludicrous, obliterating not only the willing suspension of disbelief but any ability to do so whatsoever.
In Dark Pursuit, Kaitlan comes home early from a bad day at work to find a dead woman in her bed, a strip of black fabric with green stripes around her throat that matches the MO of two other strangulation victims in town in the past year, signs of a struggle and the engraved pen of her boyfriend of three months, police officer and son of the chief of police, Craig. Kaitlan is horrified, terrified that Craig was the killer, just as she was sure he couldn't possibly have done it. Then the phone rings and a conversation with Craig convinces Kaitlan that he did, and on top of that he knows she's not at work like she told him, knows she saw the body.
As soon as she hangs up with the alleged brutal murderer...the man she loves and the father of the baby she's carrying, Kaitlan doesn't call the police. She doesn't call anyone. Instead she flees to the house of her grandfather, a world renowned author and King of Suspense, despite being estranged from him for years. He, surely, can tell her what to do. But he is not the man he used to be following a car crash that left him brain damaged. Yet still she listens to him, takes his advice, and on the word of a fiction writer who's not all there mentally, returns to her apartment as if nothing happened to go out with a man she thinks is a killer - one she thinks knows she knows he's a killer.
The plot of Dark Pursuit spirals downwards from there, including several instances where a beleaguered Kaitlan shouts at her grandfather that this situation she's in is real life, not a book...which made me cringe every time she said it. If you don't want a brain damaged, miserable human being who threw you out of the house years ago and swore never to see you again treating your problems like it's the plot of a novel, then you might consider choosing a savior who's not a damn author.
Ugh. There were so very many stupid things in this book, idiotic choices and ideas, incomprehensible actions...like after running in terror through the dark streets and woods to hide from a man you're sure is going to kill you if he catches you, getting hit by a car, and finally making it to safety, perhaps running back to your apartment for your shears so you can go to work the next day isn't the best of ideas. Just a thought.
And even if the plot wasn't predicated on such ridiculous grounds, the characters Kaitlan and Margaret were two dimensional, overly emotional, and very poorly defined. Darell, for all that the idea of him catching Craig was laughable and the attempt to do so poorly written and ill conceived, was the most complex of the characters. I will give Collins credit there, I found Darell's internal struggles extremely compelling as he grasped hopelessly for what he lost, for the man he used to be, knowing all the while how far he'd fallen, despite the fact that he was sort of a bastard his whole life because of it. That aspect of the book is what garnered the second star in my rating, though the absurdity of the final conflict and 'twist' at the end almost stripped it right back.
I'm not trying to say that Collins doesn't possess the ability to tell a tale. I actually believe the opposite to be true. Despite the issues I had with it, I read Dark Pursuit in total and I don't feel like it was time totally wasted. She exhibits a sort of artistry stylistically, and again, I was very impressed with how she dealt with Darell's mind fuzzing in and out. Also in her favor, I was aware when I started this book that it was a Christian fiction, but the religion didn't impinge on the book, nor was it in any way preachy, even when the subject of abortion was raised. That may be better news for some than others, but I was glad for it.
I feel some real regret for not being able to enjoy this story, because I do appreciate Collins' narrative style, but after disliking both of the two books she's authored that I've read, I won't be checking to see if she's gained a better grasp of the most basic necessity in fiction in her future endeavors...to make sense.
I thought the first two thirds of the book were great page-turning suspense but then I hit the last third. I find it ironic that the underlying theme of the book was about the many twists and turns of a great suspense novel yet the the last third of the book provided just the opposite. While not giving away any spoilers, let me just say that the bad guy and his actions were totally perdictable (albiet pretty dumb given the earlier character build-up) and the "twist" came out of nowhere with no pre-rational for consideration within the plot. It's like everyone sitting around for hours playing the board game "Clue" trying to fiqure out who did it, where they did it, and with what weapon; only to find out the real answer was the deceased killed by a cosmic ray from an alien spaceship that was never included in the factual possibilities.
This was my first Brandilyn Collins book, and I'll admit I took it only because it was free when I got it. Wow would be an understatement. This was an excellent read, well written, storyline a little improbable, but one that did keep you reading and wondering. I literally could not put this book down, and I'm getting ready to start my second Brandilyn Collins book, Violet Dawn. I'm hoping this one will be as good as the first.
I found her writing to be very good, the characters were well described, so that you had a sense and feel for them. They weren't shallowly written or described. While I admit the storyline might have been a little "out there" once or twice, you couldn't help but scratch your head a couple of times, but it was well woven and it kept you intrigued throughout the book. I can't think of one spot where it dragged or bored me. I didn't find it confusing or vague, and it isn't a book that jumps from character to character or locale to locale leaving you wondering what the heck was going on. I knew at all times what was going on and to whom; I was continually wondering (and almost worrying) about what was going to happen next and to whom!
This is a great read; well written, easy to read, suspenseful, and thought provoking. The only thing I'll say about the ending, and this is not a spoiler, is that I was stunned, surprised, shocked (pick one!), and I think that was the author's intent all along. You truly believe you know the ending, but I'm telling you,it's not what you might think.
I'm glad I read it and will read more from this author. Thank you for taking the time to read my review.
Another seatbelt suspense. I've lower my usual five star rating to a three star. I did this because the whole story just didn't hit the usual grand apex I've come to enjoy. The main character, Kaitlin, is a week character. To have a druggie on the streets in LA, she'd be street smart. Yet she didn't act accordingly when she discovered the body. She was a strong person to quit rugs, get a drivers license, push for grant to go back to school... She was a street kid who worked hard to earn a better life. Then when she has a better life and finds a dead body on her bed, what happens? The street smarts disappear along with the strong character she was supposed to be. I did have a feeling about who the murderer was, and it turned out I was right. And then, the story just abruptly ends with a scene of her grandfather, not her. The story cuts off way too quickly. Too many thing were left the the reader's imagination instead of have full closure. I absolutely LOVE Brandilyn Collins. But I am disappointed with this one.
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