THE REAPERS takes the reader into the shadowy world of a set of professional killers called Reapers. Louis and his partner Angel are Reapers, drawn into a trap. Excellent writing,plenty of action, a great book. ( )

John Connolly is a great literary crime writer. His latest novel The Reapers is an excellent fast paced novel. It has a great plot and is action packed, a real page turner. It has 544 pages long of excitement and is published by Hodder. Its ISBN is 034093668 and it is now in paperback. It’s cover announces “blood will follow” and in the chain of murders that follows it certainly does. In this book there are three main protagonists : Parker, Angel and Louis. The Reapers are elite killers and the plot is a cat and mouse game of killer seeking killers. Louis’s past comes back to haunt him and Louis and Angel are trapped in a town but Parker has help on the way but will it be too late ? I highly recommend this compelling novel. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap. ( )

I was looking forward to reading this book because I had loved "The Book of Lost Things", but "The Reapers" could have been written by a completely different person. I guess that can be both good and bad... Good because it shows the writer's versatility and bad because you are greeted by a whole other being. That being said, here's my review on the book:
It took a while for it to start and grab my attention; maybe around page 230 it took off. I didn't love the main characters and, in fact, found them pretty disturbing. I thought the author repeated himself in various occasions and that frustrated me. When the story finally evolved, it got pretty good, but undeserving of a 5 star. I guess I'm giving it a 3 because I loved that other book I mentioned. I will read "The Lovers" though, which is the sequel to this one, in hopes that it gets better. ( )

I must go back and read Connolly's earler works after experiencing The Reapers. It was a briliant idea to center the novel around what had been his protagonist's supporting cast: Louis and Angel. A tremendous read. An enthusiastic 4.5 satrs. ( )

Louis confronts his past and Charlie Parker steps in to rescue his friends. ( )