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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312364601
ISBN number: 0312364601
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: November 11, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Minotaur
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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With his Southwestern series, bestselling author James D. Doss and his dryly humorous, no-nonsense Native American sleuth, Charlie Moon, have brought law and what’s going to have to pass for order to Charlie’s Columbine Ranch and the nearby Ute reservation.
Now the seven-foot rancher and part-time tribal investigator wants to carve out a little more space for himself alongside FBI Special Agent Lila Mae McTeague. That’s right: Charlie has it in his head that he’s going to get hitched. That is, unless Charlie’s irascible aunt, her sixteen-year-old niece, and their visions of a dead woman—her throat slit from ear to ear—have anything to say about it.
With a bit of romance and full measure of murder, Snake Dreams, the thirteenth in James D. Doss’s widely loved Charlie Moon series, is a haunting tale best told under a full moon and beside a crackling fire.
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I have read all of Doss's Charlie Moon books and eagerly await his subsequent book. This book was terrible. If I want to read a comedy, I'll buy one. I
didn't even finish this book. I was so disappointed. Whatever you do, don't waste your money on this book. It stinks!
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I always wait impatiently for the latest adventure of Charlie Moon and Scott Parrish. This year was no different. However, this year I was not as satisfied as I usually am. This book just felt like "Charlie Moon lite". Most of the usual characteristics are there but the story is just not as fleshed out as usual. I did enjoy it but not as much as all the others. I hope this is just a glitch and that future books go back to the earlier forms. If not, I will just re-read the others.
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Starting with Three Sisters, James Doss started adding glib asides and trite comments that seem to have been lifted out of cheap mystery novels. For Snake Dreams he has continued to use these irritating add-ons. These clichéd and over used remarks do nothing to further the story line and only frustrate the reader. It is unfortunate because otherwise he has come up with a decent story to tell. One has to wonder how well his current editor is serving him for letting such nonsense get into print. The last good read from Doss was Stone Butterfly and with Snake Dreams this will probably be the last book from James Doss that I will suffer through. I really hope that Mr. Doss takes a good long look at his work and makes a change for the better going back to his former writing style.
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I love Charlie Moon and Aunt Daisy when they are solving a mystery in their inimitable ways, but this was no mystery it was a tongue in cheek book of wise cracks. Please Mr. Doss get a bit more serious.
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SNAKE DREAMS has James Doss's beloved characters, but editorial comments spoil the action. The jumps from tidbit to tidbit (too short to be scenes are almost like a badly cut film with the camera lens out of focus.
I've been a fan of Mr. Doss's since THE SHAMAN SINGS (see all of my reviews) and have consider him on the par with Hillerman with the descriptive ability of James L. Burke.
The vivid descriptions are present; the plot is convoluted; Charlie is befuddled by women; Aunt Daisy is fantastic, but the quarter-backing of the author stops the action dead. As I stated in a previous review the last two books don't read like they were written by the same person.
Nash Black, author of HAINTS and WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS
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