Hannibal
Author: Thomas Harris
Series: Hannibal Lecter # 3
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Original publication date: June 1999
Book description: Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno. Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
Thoughts:
It is once more engaging. We have once more a story filled with a lot of people other than the good Dr Lecter.
We have Starling once more and this time she is facing harder times than ever before and it is not at the hands of criminals but of her "own" people.
Police, people in her department, people who don't care about her as a person, agent or anything for several reasons mainly bad ones.
She still has very close and good friends, but there are so many things happening around her that she never has a chance. You get so frustrated at seeing all the planning people are doing and then seeing her right there completely unaware.
But still, that only helps the build-up and you can't really stop reading until you see what will happen in the end.
I can't believe the ending, it was definitely not what I was expecting. I had made myself a completely different scenario, still not sure how I feel about it. But I will definitely be rereading this shortly and try to get a better hang of it.
I was not supposed to read this book this month, this was going to be an extra one to have close by ad consider picking it up after getting through my current TBR. No, I not only read the wrong order of books in the series but I read my two extra books, I really wasn't in a hurry to read before most of the books included in my official TBR, nicely done.
Just thought to mention, I did not begin an audiobook this time and it took me significantly longer to get through books, or at least my page count went down real quick. Adios have been helping me out a great deal!
Series: Hannibal Lecter # 3
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Original publication date: June 1999
Book description: Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno. Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
Thoughts:
It is once more engaging. We have once more a story filled with a lot of people other than the good Dr Lecter.
We have Starling once more and this time she is facing harder times than ever before and it is not at the hands of criminals but of her "own" people.
Police, people in her department, people who don't care about her as a person, agent or anything for several reasons mainly bad ones.
She still has very close and good friends, but there are so many things happening around her that she never has a chance. You get so frustrated at seeing all the planning people are doing and then seeing her right there completely unaware.
But still, that only helps the build-up and you can't really stop reading until you see what will happen in the end.
I can't believe the ending, it was definitely not what I was expecting. I had made myself a completely different scenario, still not sure how I feel about it. But I will definitely be rereading this shortly and try to get a better hang of it.
Just thought to mention, I did not begin an audiobook this time and it took me significantly longer to get through books, or at least my page count went down real quick. Adios have been helping me out a great deal!
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