Tropic of Night (Abridged) Audiobook

" I gave it a 3 only because there were LOTS of words that were from an African language (that I don't speak or read) so you often had to reference the glossary in the back (thank gooddness for the glossary!) but for the most part you could read it and get the jist with out looking up every word. I really like the story - wierd, wild stuff! How the characters intersected, her 'found' child. It was really good. I bought it randomly off a bargain book table at Harry W. Schwartz. A favorite Milwaukee book store. "

" Good book - adventure mostly, but some voodoo kinda stuff. "

" Great mystery/suspense novel! "

" A little too much magic and sorcery for my tastes, and I thought the journal entries really bogged down the momentum. I really like Mami Paz, though. "

" I really liked the main characters. I also liked the premise that the Western way of looking at mental illness is not the only way. Fascinating ideas proposed about how other cultures look at things. "

" A whole lot of afro words that don't make any sense to me. Is Gruber just showing off his anrhro edudation, or is all of this necessary to make the story. A slow read, but I did finally finish it. "

" I will always keep this book around for when I have nothing else to read. It's just pulpy enough that you don't have to think, but it's still well written and have a fabulous plot. "

" Ritualistic murders in Miami. Way too much description of African Santeria gory stuff of mutilated pregnant women and their fetuses. Tho he is a good writer about 200 pages of book could have been edited out. "

" Picked this up in an airport when i forgot my book. It's by a Seattle author and has great reviews but unless you are fascinated with black magic the dense and almost academic descriptions of that art can be a bit heavy. It may haunt you - best not to read alone on a windy night. "

" Too much voodoo stuff "

" Engaging, though the plot gets bogged down in a lot of details about sorcery. "

" Mysterious,thoughtful and at the same time a slamming adrenaline filled adventure.one of my favorites! "

" One of the best page-turners I've read in a long time. Nice cliff-hanger chapters kept me reading straight through. Interesting characters. Not sure I completely loved the ending - I would've liked a deeper motivation for the bad guy I think - but still worth getting there. "

" African religions, Miami fauna, Santeria "

" Cutting out the excess would have helped. I see why he went with the multiple perspectives but he could have cut out much of the back-story to make it more reader friendly. Prepare yourself for dream scenes, flashbacks and other obstacles, like voodoo terminology. "

" This was a page-turner with a surprising topic. Serial murders done by a sorcerer trained in Africa told through the experiences of his wife, an anthropologist. "

" Gripping, but gruesome. Recommend to those who love mysteries, magic, and can handle some grisley crime scenes. "

" Excellent read. Fast paced. Well-developed characters and plot line. Humorous at times. "

" Unfortunately I read Night of the Jaguar first so I already knew who would "survive" in this story. I liked the archeology and African witch doctor angle. "

" Page-turner. I enjoyed it a lot and found myself thinking about some of the themes after I read it. I am excited to try another book by Gruber. "

" Great supernatural mystery. Highly intellectual with discussions of religion, anthropology, and mysticism, but the gruesome killings are here too. "

" First book in a trilogy featuring a detective from Miami whose investigation leads him to learn more about Santeria on a personal and professional level. Fantastic supernatural mystery - loved it! "

" Tropic of Night is one of the most atmospheric books I've read in a long time. Best part, it's part of a trilogy, so I'm on to the second. Gruber is just so much ahead of the pack when it comes to a good thriller, real plot, characters, and themes. "

" I really didn't care much for this book. There was way too much jumping around from the past to the present to the very distant past. It was a good story line, just too much skipping around. "

" Perhaps not the best first book to read post-partum... only thing worse would have been reading it while pregnant. That'll learn me to not read the synopsis beforehand. Anyhow, great book, though the subject matter is often quite disturbing - especially for mothers. "

" Cutting out the excess would have helped. I see why he went with the multiple perspectives but he could have cut out much of the back-story to make it more reader friendly. Prepare yourself for dream scenes, flashbacks and other obstacles, like voodoo terminology. "

" I really liked the main characters. I also liked the premise that the Western way of looking at mental illness is not the only way. Fascinating ideas proposed about how other cultures look at things. "

" I love the Jimmy Paz trilogy - and hope for more. "

" A-MA-ZING!!!! So full of amazing detail and fascinating stuff. mesmerizing. "

" Very weird but kind of compelling...Had to finish it. "

" If he would just stop flogging his hobby horses, especially his new-agey conviction that science is deeply flawed, it would have had five stars, no problem. The Paz novels are imaginative genre busters in the vein of Dick or Lethem, but they suffer from self-indulgence. "

" One of the best page-turners I've read in a long time. Nice cliff-hanger chapters kept me reading straight through. Interesting characters. Not sure I completely loved the ending - I would've liked a deeper motivation for the bad guy I think - but still worth getting there. "

" like all mgruber's, I have to read the reviews to remember what the book was about. this one was not the best. "

" Page-turner. I enjoyed it a lot and found myself thinking about some of the themes after I read it. I am excited to try another book by Gruber. "