{"id":1789,"date":"2016-10-13T06:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:30:11","slug":"review-all-the-flowers-are-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/review-all-the-flowers-are-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: All the Flowers Are Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n All the Flowers Are Dying<\/a> by Lawrence Block<\/a>
\n My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

This is Scudder 16 out of 17 but maybe it should be 15.5. In my review of 15, Hope to Die<\/i>, I said that it wasn’t a Matthew Scudder novel as much as it was about the bad guy. What I didn’t mention was that the bad guy is not brought to justice. This novel, All the Flowers are Dying<\/i>, has the same bad guy therefor, and I’m still not going to tell you if he’s brought to justice at the end.<\/p>\n

But you read A Ticket to the Boneyard<\/i>, right? Well, you also read A Long Line of Dead Men<\/i>, I bet. So that should keep you guessing.<\/p>\n

I don’t know much what else to say about Flowers<\/i> that I didn’t say about Hope<\/i>. Honestly, they could have been bound into a single tome. I can only imagine what it must have been like for the hard-core, up-to-date Scudder fan who finished Hope<\/i> when it came out in 2001 and then had to wait four year before Flowers<\/i> hit the bookstore and finished the story. Then again, such fans maybe even started way back in 1976 with the first novel, and patience isn’t a problem for them.<\/p>\n

Ironically, in this novel, it’s not just Scudder who coasts on his descriptions from previous books, but the bad guy too. What I mean is, in as much as the bad guy’s crimes were hard to swallow in Hope<\/i>, they’re back story for Flowers<\/i>. So this is a true sequel. A true sequel, and 16th in a series\u2026 Block sure does know how to wring a good creation for all it’s worth, doesn’t he.<\/p>\n

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All the Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is Scudder 16 out of 17 but maybe it should be 15.5. In my review of 15, Hope to Die, I said that it wasn’t a Matthew Scudder novel as much as it was about the bad guy. What I … <\/p>\n

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