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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416537731
ISBN number: 1416537732
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: November 20, 2007
Publishing house: Pocket Star
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The New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Evil is back with another masterful thriller featuring Ali Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who finds herself in a twisted web of mystery and murder.
Fired from her dream job as a Los Angeles new anchor and still recovering from the truth about her cheating husband, Ali is content to lick her wounds far away in Sedona, Arizona. But before she can leave the past behind, she must return to L.A.: her ex, Paul, is in a hurry for a divorce so he can marry his very young, very pregnant fiancée. But the day before the final proceedings, Paul's bound and broken body is found in the Palm Springs desert. Ali finds herself the sole heir to his wealthy estate - and the prime suspect in his brutal murder. As the evidence piles up against her, she must navigate a torturous path strewn with danger - and bodies - to expose the real cold-blooded thriller.
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This is teh secind book in hte series of Ali Reynolds. As usual Jance has drawn her characters really well. They are interesting and you care about them. She has some recurring charaters too.I am interested to see where they all go.
The story was too similar to the very first one. I am not sure what to make of hte job as a blog reporter? Does that exist?
It took a few books for JP Beaumont to hit his stide so I am willing to give this another go.
The Joanna Brady books are the best. Not to be missed.
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WEB OF EVIL has Ali Reynolds witness a bad "accident" and being thankful she no longer has to report the news. Ali with problems of her own--pitched into a rush divorce while her husband's new squeeze is planning a wedding so her baby will be born on time in wedlock is not one's normal cup of tea. Hubby was busy because another mother and baby come to light and their son seems almost oblivious his new siblings.
The trunk of the car contained Ali's ex and she becomes the chief suspect in a case of murder. Ali and all the other characters for some reason just don't make it. Ali is too "good" and everyone else is the pink stuff stereotypes. Not the best of J.A. Jance's continuing characters. These stories don't have the depth of the Joanna Brady series.
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Unfortunately, this was for me one of those books that you persevere with for fifty or so pages, but then, against your better judgment, feel you have to push on - assuming it can only get better. Web Of Evil doesn't though. It meanders along with far too many coincidences of convenience plot-wise. For one example, Ali's boyfriend(?) cop Dave Holman, from back home in Sedona, just conveniently happens to have an old friend in the LAPD, who can conveniently pull lots of strings and knows lots of law enforcement people in the big smoke. Very handy.
Our somewhat characterless protagonist, Ali Reynolds is a little too cool, calm and collected - considering some of the dire circumstances that surround her, and to me, she seems too disconnected and analytical all too often. Although, bizarrely, at other times, she seems to miss things that're right in front of her face - and which the reader has already surmised.
Another point of weakness in this novel is the often stilted dialogue. For a story set in contemporary times, much of the language is very 1940s. I'm not suggesting that every page be littered with obscenities, but cops and assorted crims that NEVER swear? It simply doesn't gel. The natural flow of the language in books is critical to the story's "ambience" in my opinion - that is, it should reflect how people speak in 2008 if that's around the time the story is set. Interestingly, several other hugely successful modern authors (such as PD James) have the same problem. Their language is too idiosyncratically "polite" all the time.
But..... the most ANNOYING single issue with this storyline was the massive overuse of Ali's blog [...] as a plot "gap-filler". It may've been okay to have it pop up half a dozen times throughout the book as an incidental, but in some cases its contents ran over more than a page at a time. Unnecessary padding - all of it, and I'm not sure why Jance used it so obviously.
Eagle-eyed readers will notice too that on page 235, Alison turns temporarily into "Alice"!
I'm thinking that by now, with a lengthy string of novels under her belt, Judith Jance is simply churning 'em out to bolster her retirement fund. She's lost the will for her characters to live!
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This is Jance's second Ali Reynolds thriller. The first, EDGE OF EVIL, hooked me on the series. This second has ended that relationship. The blogging part of the book was cool, but the character was a bit on the side of little good two-shoes for me to enjoy. The mystery in itself was good and I didn't figure out until halfway through.
What can't be taken away from the book's quality was the fact the characters were well defined. This is an art form Jance has perfected. The plot was interesting enough; but then again, all of her plots are. Also another thing to add to her credit is she knows how to end a book. What brought down the rating were two things. One was parts of the story were too far-fetched. And the second, there were way too many dry spots. So many, in fact, it has turned me off reading more in this series.
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Web of Evil opens from the point of view of a man bound hand and foot in the trunk of a car. What a promising start. Unfortunately, the heroine, the much maltreated Ali Reynolds, makes her entrance in the subsequent chapter. Ali is one of those characters who is annoyingly perfect. All of the others in this cast also are "types" - parents with hearts of gold, mindless bimbos, hapless illegal immigrants, cops with the hearts of lions, avaricious lawyers. Much of the action is moved along via the device of Ali's blog, Cutloose, in which she whines about losing her news anchorwoman position (too old), maligns her cheating, media exec husband, and ignores advice to avoid blogging about all the danger she blindly stumbles into after that husband disappears. Naturally, her blog is wildly popular, and Ali now seems to spend her life answering email from her legion of admiring fans. I guess this book qualifies as a mystery, since I had no idea who committed the murders or why. But it's certainly not a thriller, nor is there a glimmer of suspense.
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