Moon Music [Paperback] by Faye Kelleman [Paperback]

Faye Kelleman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; First edition (1998)
• ISBN-10: 0965064115
• ISBN-13: 978-0965064118
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (187 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,525,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-six novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two best selling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently has teamed up with her daughter, Aliza, to co-write a teen novel, entitled PRISM. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh My God!, March 25, 2000

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Bridget L. Sproul (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Music (Paperback) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love both Faye and Jonathon Kellerman. Their books have always kept me enthralled, and I am usually dissapointed when I get to the end of them - not because I was dissatisfied, but because the book was so good I didn't want it to end! Well, Faye took care of that for me this time! What a GREAT dissapointment this book was. I had it figured out early on, but I thought it was a workable idea - so I continued to fight my way through the book. I shouldn't have wasted my time. It was horrible. She would bring in new scenarios or characters in such a way that you would think you must have missed something earlier on. She made it sound like it was the second or third time she had brought them up, and I'd flip through the pages I had already read to see where they were mentioned - but they were never there. I was so dissapointed in this book. Not up to her Decker/Lazarus books by a long shot! Don't waste your money on this one! Don't even use your Library card for it!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kellerman gets grittier, November 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Moon Music (Paperback) (Mass Market Paperback)

As a fan of Faye Kellerman's previous works, I was excited to "find" this paperback at the store. Even more suprised that she had tried her hand at something other than the Peter/Rina novels. I think it's unfair to compare this book to the Decker mysteries; this is a book that should be critiqued on its own merit. I found it to be a darker, grittier departure for Kellerman. But as with any of her books, I was hard pressed to put it down. I think it's necessary for an artist to expand their horizons, or their characters run the chance of becoming stale. While her ending is a bit out there, I found it to be good escapist fun.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A trunk book?, March 30, 2000

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Terry Weyna "Terry Weyna" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon Music (Paperback) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm presently in the middle of Moon Music. It is very disappointing. In fact, my guess is that it's a "trunk book," pulled out because Kellerman missed a deadline about a year and a half ago. It appears to have been written by a much less skilled, much younger writer. It's overblown (and appears fundamentally unedited) at nearly 500 pages. The time frames seem to shift. The viewpoint character repeatedly shift, and not in any The Sound and the Fury sort of way, either -- sometimes thoughts show up on the page that you can't seem to attribute to anyone in particular because the viewpoint character has shifted two or three times on a single page.

It's always been interesting to me that, once a writer starts successfully publishing, anything s/he has written will get published, good, bad or indifferent. And, of course, people will buy it based on the strength of past work by the author. I've called this "bestsellerdom" in the past, and mourned such victims as James Patterson, who used to write good mysteries. I suppose once you can start making tens of thousands of dollars by writing one-line paragraphs, by not self-editing, by bringing out old, inferior work, by not sweating over each word, the temptation to do so is pretty fierce. Sad to see good writers give in to it.