The Blue Nowhere: A Novel

Features

• Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 544 pages
• Published by: Pocket February 26, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0671042262
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0671042264
• Book Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 13.4 ounces

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Blue Nowhere : A Novel (Hardcover) It is beginning to seem that Jeffery Deaver hit his peak with The Bone Collector, if The Blue Nowhere is any indication of where he's headed. I really wanted to like this book; I've been a long-time fan. But The Blue Nowhere just doesn't have the intensity, the passion, the heart of Deaver's earlier books. It's possible that in the course of doing so much research to validate his thesis that none of us are safe from the stealthy probing fingers of hackers, crackers, whatever, the characterizations suffer terribly. A couple of the people come to life, but not nearly enough to keep one thoroughly engrossed. This is an entirely plot-driven book, eminently readable but only barely plausible. The pacing is certain and keeps one turning pages, but more from curiosity to see how he's going to pull it off rather than from any depth of caring for the characters. Finally, the title is repeated so many times in the course of the book that it becomes like a long infomercial, where you want to say, "Okay. I got it. I got it." Bottom line: all the research in the world cannot be a substitute for characters grounded in some kind of recognizable humanity. So the book whizzes along at the speed of downloaded data on the best cable connection anywhere. But at the end, it's hard to care about people who just aren't fully fleshed and rendered believably human. Comment | | (Report this)