The Bone Collector

After reading the book, I re-watched the movie, and frankly the book really was better. More focused on the forensics of the cases... and their is just some kind of gratification when the puzzle is solved and NOT everyone dies. Consider that a spoiler or not, whatever, but I didn't agree with a lot of the major changes they made in the movie, specifically to Rhyme and Amelia. The personalities and character flaws exhibited in the book were completely given up for the movie. Yes, they were two broken people coming together to solve some heinous crimes, but the empathy for Rhyme in the movie was completely wrong, and Amelia... damn she was a much stronger character, both morally and physically. I wanted to weep for the butchery done to this story, I see why they never made a second.

Now as for the book, I don't know if I will continue this series. It was a difficult read, and I don't mean that it was hard to read, more so that it took me FOREVER to get into the story. In the beginning I needed more time focused on the baddy, and less time focused on Rhyme being a quadriplegic. It literally took me two weeks to read the first 15 chapters, and less than 3 days to finish the book. It really did pick up which is why the 3star review. We'll see.