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Title: Opening Moves
Subtitle: The Bowers Files, Book 6
Author: Steven James
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-12
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 116 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Milwaukee, 1995. In a city still reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a womans body is found with the lungs removed. Local cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective for the Milwaukee Police Department, sees from the timing and location of the crime that this is not a copycat at all. It's a killer with an entirely different agenda....
Critic Reviews:
"
Opening Moves is a mesmerizing read. From the first chapter, it sets its hook deep and drags you through a darkly gripping story with relentless power. My conclusion: I need to read more of Steven James." (Michael Connelly)
Members Reviews:
Gore Galore
Would you listen to Opening Moves again? Why?
Extremely violent and discriptive.
What about Richard Ferrones performance did you like?
Richard has a good reading voice and reads the horrific details with just the right amout of menace.
Any additional comments?
I did not "enjoy" this book. It is not a story I would recommend.
Interesting
I'm not a fan of going back in time, particularly devoting a whole novel to it, but this time it was worth the read. Throughout the first five Bower books, the hero keeps referring to events that occurred long ago, and this novel answers a lot of questions about what happened back then. If fact if a reader new to Steven James, decides to start with this novel, and then listen to the others in order, that would probably be the best way to appreciate this series.
I'll be happy to get back to the current time frame if Steven James plans to continue the Bowers novels with story lines involving the current characters from Book 5.
All of Steven James novels are well crafted and extremely interesting.
If you like gore and guts, you'll love this one
If you could sum up Opening Moves in three words, what would they be?
Chilling, complicated, deep
Who was your favorite character and why?
Patrick Bowers is a deep character and he keeps making me want more. He is conflicted, always measuring the line between what he must do and what he would like to do.
Have you listened to any of Richard Ferrones other performances before? How does this one compare?
Mr. Ferrone does a pretty good job on the narration. He is one of the few performers who can do good female voices.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Chilled me. Horrified me. Made me skip forward in a place or two, but all of those emotions took the throne over my favorite scene with Radar and his love for his family.
Any additional comments?
I am noticing Christian authors who seem to be trying to tred on the worldly side of the tracks with gore and torture, minus the filthy mouth. I guess we could call it Christian gore. I'm wondering why they feel it necessary. To test their own prowess? To compete in the market place? Personally, I don't see the need for competing in this field, but I have to give it to Steven James who outdoes himself in this very complicated plot which could rank no less than a 5. He said he had nightmares after he wrote this. I don't doubt it.
Steven James does it again!
One of the things, which I most enjoy, is that James makes Patrick Bowers so human. He is brilliant and flawed, loving and awkward, honest and confused.