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I don’t know that I have ever seen a characters portrayal change so quickly as with principal Morgan, who was a seemingly good guy in the opening chapters and is now looking to be the big villain!

The dialog (at least in this first chapter) is not natural. It feels too polite among good friends.

I don’t like the way Mickey Haller is being portrayed in this book. He comes across as very self-serving greedy. He uses people (like Naomi Kitchens and Jack McEvoy) and encourages others to do the same (Literally rna and the detective). Maybe he’s always been this way, and it just didn’t bother me before; it seems so central to the plot in this novel, though.

This mystery seems so lightweight, almost like a cozy rather than the police procedural and legal thrillers I associate with Michael Connelly. It’s well-written and has a strong sense of place, sure, but there’s just no sense of urgency to the investigation.

In the years ahead, through the war, and beyond, it was this quiet day, moving through the unmoving land with boy and girl and the old man and red that I returned to when I needed it most.

Home’s not the place you’re from, Woody. Home is the place you wanna be.