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The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly, Book Review

Michael Connelly is one of my all-time most favorite authors. One of the few, whose books mostly got better over the years.

The Proving Ground is his latest creation, rated the absurdly high 4.5 on Goodreads. Unfortunately, although far more interesting than the last one, we’ve seen better it didn’t qualify for 4* on my shelves.

Mickey Haller is tired from criminal cases and moved to the area of civil law. He’s suing an AI company, whose AI-assistant convinced a teenager to commit murder. The settlement offers go up and down, and the ruthless billionaire behind the company will no spare additional efforts to end the case and hide everything behind a NDA.

The topic is deep and the plot is plausible, actually it could be something that has already happened. I have no objections in that area. The reason why the book didn’t click with me is that it was just uninteresting, and some was even meaningless. But while I have significant tolerance for inaccuracies, reaching page 250 or 300 without anything of substance happening was not good for me.

The plot offered many chances that could develop to be interesting. It had a secondary case. Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard got a shout out. But none of that had a meaningful follow-up, it was almost like it had to be included for the sake of being there, proving that the story is from the Harry Bosch universe. The billionaire wasn’t really a good match for the Lincoln Lawyer or some cat walked on the keyboard and we didn’t get far.

Overall, the book left me with a bad taste. I awarded it with an honest 3/5. Felt like it was written by the late John Grisham, whose stories are written to convince the reader that a certain causes are just. If you want to be convinced that AI is biased and can kill, look no further. The tagline could’ve been “garbage in, garbage out”.

𝘔𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴.

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Read them at the 🔗 link in our comments. #newbooks #bookstodon

#HarryBosch is back! The latest Bosch novel by #MichaelConnelly has been announced. No cover yet, but The Hollows hits bookshelves on November 3rd.

👽See our entire Bosch Universe listing: https://www.booknotification.com/authors/michael-connelly/

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The Drop (Harry Bosch #15), by Michael Connelly
#Book #Crime #Favourite #Mystery #Review #MichaelConnelly #HarryBosch #TheDrop
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-drop-harry-bosch-15-by-michael-connelly/?fsp_sid=1092

Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch #14), by Michael Connelly
#Adventure #Book #Crime #Mystery #Review #MichaelConnelly #HarryBosch #books #bookstodon #BookReview
https://turing.mailstation.de/nine-dragons-harry-bosch-14-by-michael-connelly/?fsp_sid=1137

The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13), by Michael Connelly
#Book #Crime #Meh #Mystery #Novella #PoliceProcedural #Review #books #bookstodon #BookReview #MichaelConnelly #HarryBosch #CrimeNovel
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-overlook-harry-bosch-13-by-michael-connelly/?fsp_sid=1082

Echo Park (Harry Bosch #12), by Michael Connelly
#Book #Crime #Mystery #PoliceProcedural #Review #MichaelConnelly #EchoPark #HarryBosch
https://turing.mailstation.de/echo-park-harry-bosch-12-by-michael-connelly/?fsp_sid=1029

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 1: What's your favorite easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?

I don't place much value on easter eggs relative to command of language, compelling characters, and similar concrete measures of writing, but in general I like brief character mentions or cameos like when #RobertCrais's #ElvisCole waves to his neighbor #MichaelConnelly's #HarryBosch or when #AceAtkins had #Spenser in Los Angeles on a case see Crais's #JoePike jogging.

I've enjoyed both #bosch and #boschlegacy, so a Bosch Expanded Universe is fine with me.

#HarryBosch #MichaelConnelly #mystery #crime #thriller
https://deadline.com/2023/02/bosch-universe-spinoffs-amazon-studios-j-edgar-renee-ballard-michael-connelly-1235252200/