Title: Shocking decline in the level of Crais' writing
Product review: His last Elvis Cole novel was the best thing Crais has ever written. "Demolition Angel" is the worst thing he's ever written. All too obviously it's written in a way to try to sell it to the movies. The characters are very broadly drawn, when they're drawn at all (often supporting characters are the faintest of sketches), and the lead character is so brassy and angry that she's repellent. You WANT her to blow up.The situations are simplistic, the plotting pointlessly tricky, the villain utterly unbelievable. AND Crais thinks Tagamet is merely a powerful antacid. He uses lots of Los Angeles street names without capturing anything remotely like the flavor of the city.The book reads as though it was written in a way carefully calculated to make it a best-seller, and completely without the spirit and sense of involvement that he'd been slowly and competently developing in the Elvis Cole series. This is a disaster.
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