Title: High expectations - but ended up disappointed
Product review: I think the Wire is the most brilliant piece of TV ever. And Pelecanos have received rave reviews here on Amazon, so I thought this must be great. It didn't feel great.I'll start by saying this though: The writing is well done, the conversations sound real, and the story feels believable.However, it took a whole one hundred pages before the story started moving. With that much time building characters, there should be a lot of depth - but it never happens. Ramone and Holiday are pretty one dimensional, and really have only one pattern of expressions. The parallel stories don't have a single character with whom I'd relate or care about what happened to, and thus many chapters felt like a chore to finish. Compared with James Lee Burke's depth or Robert Wilson's plots, this book has a long way to go.
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