Thursday, June 22, 2006
 
Book Report: Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker (2006)
Because of who is he and what he meant to my youth, I bought this book like all other Robert B. Parker novels at full price, in hardcover, when it became available. Because it's a Sunny Randall novel, though, I didn't immediately read it right away. Heather actually read it first, which meant she could duly be impressed when I verbally anticipated plot points when they became obvious.

A serviceable piece of genre work, this book combines elements of the Parker books Looking for Rachel Wallace, Stardust, and Double Play and almost channels Lupica's Full Court Press. And although it channeled the books, it didn't completely retread them, so there you go. Sorry, that's a Robert Crais catch phrase, not "We'd be fools not to," the Robert B. Parker catch phrase.

Serviceable, worth a couple of bucks, but it's not as deep nor satisfying as Parker's other work, but I'm not as young as I once was, either, so perhaps I'm just more demanding or less in need of moral instruction.

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