Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Where Serpents Lie |
| author | T. Jefferson Parker |
| ISBN-10 | 0-786-88944-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-786-88944-0 |
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| date | 2010-Oct-24 |
CAY, short for Crimes Against Youth, is the newest police unit. The mob they specialize in, is mainly pedophiles. One very vicious criminal they currently are after calls himself The Horridus. He abducts young children, girls, but lets them go again after a few hours, without raping them, for now...
Terry Naughton is the initiator, driving force and head of CAY. He is successful in what he does, but not without his own share of personal problems, huge intake of Herradura being only one of them. The interval in which The Horridus hunts girls shortens and the CAY unit still is none the wiser about who is behind it. When they finally find at least some straws to which they are clinging, Terry is forced to leave his team alone.
At times, especially in the beginning, I would have preferred less lengthy descriptions of situations and things and move on with the storyline instead. But mostly the story is well told and not all too predictable, even though some of the details about the villain given early on would better have been left out.
There is, however, one aspect which I absolutely dislike about this book and which is also the reason for the low marks I give it. Had I known in advance what this book is about, for example from the back cover which I did read, or in what gory details some of the most ugly scenes are described, then I certainly would not have bought it. Due to some details meticulously described in length, this book can, in my opinion, easily be classified into the horror genre.
