technicat@bookwyrm.social reviewed Night and day by Robert B. Parker
A good page-turner, easy read but surprisingly melancholy
4 stars
This is my second Robert Parker novel, the first one a Spenser book, and it shares the same terse banter, but without (almost) all the racial remarks (takes place in an almost all-white community, I assume). Maybe there could be happy medium. Anyway, the Jesse Stone character is surprisingly deep and tormented in an accessible way (surprising because I only know the character from being played by Tom Selleck, an I liked Magnum but he wasn't really an everyman) and also suffering from every-woman-in-this-town-is-throwing-themselves-at-me, probably an incurable disease considering the number of books in this series. But I'm interested enough in the soap opera aspects to want to read more.
This is my second Robert Parker novel, the first one a Spenser book, and it shares the same terse banter, but without (almost) all the racial remarks (takes place in an almost all-white community, I assume). Maybe there could be happy medium. Anyway, the Jesse Stone character is surprisingly deep and tormented in an accessible way (surprising because I only know the character from being played by Tom Selleck, an I liked Magnum but he wasn't really an everyman) and also suffering from every-woman-in-this-town-is-throwing-themselves-at-me, probably an incurable disease considering the number of books in this series. But I'm interested enough in the soap opera aspects to want to read more.