Sunburn

I was sadly desappointed by this book. I've loved all of Lescrofts books but this I wouldn't idenify as his.

Started slow, got better. Seems Lescroart was trying to be a new Hemmingway when he started out. I enjoyed it, although it was a little strange.......more

This is John Lescroart's very first novel that was published in 1981 and came back in to print with a different cover years later. Unlike his Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky novels, this novel is not very good and I suspect there was a good reason that this book was out of print for decades. There doesn't......more

When I got to the end, I thought "HUH??????" I never did figure out what the book was about if it wasn't just the interaction between a group of people living together. And that type of book doesn't interest me much. I've read just about all the Dismas Hardy series of books, and went back to this earl......more

Had this been the first book by this author that I'd read, I wouldn't be enjoying his other books. This was his first novel and it feels like he was attempting the great American novel, a la Hemingway. I wanted to listen to this because it was also the first book for the narrator, Luke Daniels, who......more

Sunburn was not the usual legal thriller. It was so much more. Beautiful prose with unimaginable imagery on every page with each character described in depth both physically and personality traits. I have read only one other author who can writes so beautifully and that is Anthony Doerr, author of "A......more