By the time the big revelation happened, I didn't care anymore.
The writing was unremarkable and the transitions between scenes were rocky. It feels like it was written specifically to capitalize on The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and other devil-themed works of the 1970s. The blind priest was the most interesting part of the book but not enough to save it.Īs I said before, the book is a product of the time it was written. The paranoid, "is she going insane" angle of the book had potential but the cat was let out of the bag too quickly. I had trouble believing they even knew each other, never mind them being in a relationship. Allison was an uninteresting doormat, Michael was a douche nozzle and he and Allison had zero chemistry. Too bad the rest of the book doesn't come close to living up to the potential of the setup.įrom the beginning, I wanted to be interested but I didn't care about any of the characters enough to be invested in the story.
A woman moves into an apartment that seems to be a bargain and a lot of crazy shit happens. The setup for this book has a lot of potential. Others remain a product of the time they were written. But what about the old blind priest who never leaves the building or her other, equally strange neighbors? What secrets is the building hiding? When Allison Parker, a young model, returns to NYC after her father's funeral, she finds the perfect brownstone apartment. Louis, Kansas City and Boston, it is the story of epic, transformative times and two violent men, who meet on a descent into blood and Hell. Filled with real events and real heroes and villains, who rampaged from New York's Bowery through to Chicago, St. It is a story of murder and revenge, set during the rise of organized crime in America from 1900 to 1912 when the Irish Mob ruled all major American cities, only to be taken down by its own hubris and the rise of the Jewish and Italian Mobs into labor racketeering and, then, bootlegging. This year, his newly-written historical novel, The Circus of Satan, will be published.
He is now at work on the third book in The Sentinel Trilogy, currently untitled, while The Sentinel and The Guardian are being mounted for e-book sales. The Sentinel sequel, The Guardian, was also a bestseller along with his next book, Monster. His first published novel (Simon and Schuster and Ballantine) was The Sentinel, which rose to Number 2 on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List. Jeffrey Konvitz was born in New York City, but after graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he headed to Los Angeles, where he lives and works as an entertainment finance attorney, producer (The Sentinel and Spy Hard, among others) and novelist.
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