Review: They just don't get any better than this.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
It isn't often that a book grabs you so quickly that you are totally immersed in the story before the first chapter is finished. Especially when the chapters are short and punchy as they are in Nailed.Full disclosure: I have read (and reviewed) other books by Joseph Flynn. Those reviews are also 5-stars. So I was fully prepared to like this one. But I was not expecting to get so enthralled as quickly as I did.I've said before that there are certain books and certain authors whose work is so good that they are put in a special place in the library to be read again and again. This one certainly fills the bill that way.Mr. Flynn does an amazing job of humanizing his book's characters. There's always a proper amount of admiration for the "good guys" and an equal amount of disdain for the other side. What always works well, and not too many authors are good at, is getting the dialogue between the characters to seem real. In Nailed, the conversations are really, really good and totally believable. Most of all, even the minor players in the story are right for what they are and for what they do and say.For me, a book review is something that speaks to the way a book is written rather than being another way (obviously much shorter) to tell the story. There are over 300 amazon reviews of this book, so another one retelling the story seems kind of pointless.The bottom line here is that Nailed is as good a crime thriller as you are likely ever to read. That should be enough reason for you to get this one. Don't miss it.