I'd agree on the POV shifts. It just took me a few chapters to get on board with the structure he was employing. I liked the storyline setting up things in the post-Katrina hell. DR still did his duties as a lawman.
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, decastro3 <decastro3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> <e_lynskey@...> wrote:
> I remember the shift from first person to third person
> narrative voice in TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN took some getting used,
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> I thought he handled those shifts in POV masterfully. And
> I liked Tin
> Roof Blowdown, but it could have been so much more in my
> opinion.
> About halfway through the book, it seemed to shift from a
> story about
> this cast of characters struggling in the aftermath of the
> disaster to
> a typical Robicheaux story with him chasing down one of
> Burke's
> typical psychopaths. The first half of the book is much
> more
> interesting...though the denouement was pretty powerful
> stuff, too.
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> Tony
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