The Narrows an award winning, New York Times best seller is
one of the most spine tingling and suspense filled book I’ve read yet (keep in
mind, I’m not an avid reader). As soon as I finished this book I was left with
a great satisfaction. I can’t ruin it now the review has only begun.
The book starts out in a dream of one of the main
characters, where she is suspended in nothing, “ She could hear nothing and see
nothing”(Collins page 5). This already gives you an idea (and a bit of foreshadowing)
of how the Character Rachel Dawson is. Rachel Dawson is an FBI agent who in her
time was one of the best, but now she is a nobody who was casted into the pit
of the FBI working in a cubicle in the middle of nowhere with her fellow out
cast. Rachel as a person is a troubled person; as an FBI agent she has seen and
had to investigate some pretty heavy stuff not only that her character doesn’t
let her move on so easily from case t case; she is a strong willed person, with
a lot of determination, she is stubborn, smart, observant and impatient.
The other main character in this thriller is Harry Bosch,
Harry is a retired LAPD officer who helped a man named Terry McCaleb on a
murder case a couple years back, the murderer they were after was called the
Poet, a former FBI agent himself, mentor of Rachel Dawson and Terry McCaleb.
Mr. Bosch is now a private investigator who never really tied himself with a
case emotionally but he had all the determination needed to finish every case
he came into contact with. Mr. Bosch also has a daughter and a ex-wife, both of
the live in Las Vegas.
This Book is truly one of the best mystery novels I have
read. Period. As you read this book you get pulled in almost sucked in to this
characters livers, struggles, challenges, and desires. As I read this I became
almost attached to Harry Bosch, the way his character is and the way the author
describes how he won’t give up and how he does what is completely necessary to
get the task at hand finished. Also this book was truly well executed almost
like a puzzle with each event falling into place at different times not
allowing you to see the full picture until you’re almost dine with the book. If
I were to use a few words to describe this book it would be suspenseful,
entertaining, jaw dropping, and just plain mysterious.
Book Review by Rony M.
