City of Dreams: Don Winslow

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This book moves the story on to LA where Danny Ryan is trying to rebuild his life with his son and estranged mother. As a second book in the trilogy it could get stuck in a bridging cup de sac, but you a dragged along - as Danny navigates the LA film world.

Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for providing an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review. What Winslow gets so right with this novel and this series and the pervasive sense of tragedy that overwhelms everything. Danny gets involved to chill things down and the star playing Pam’s role in the movie falls for him.

Though inflected with occasional reflections on the absurdity of the human condition, “City of Dreams” is no picaresque; instead, as his many fans have come to expect from Winslow, this latest novel in a projected trilogy is unrelentingly tough, tense and violent. The end of this, like the end of the last book, is like the finale of a good fireworks show, more and more and more until you think "okay already" and then just one more explosion that makes you realize you were wrong and you needed one more.For a time, I thought I was reading a merged script of The Godfather and The Departed (remember that scene where Leonardo DiCaprio gives a beatdown to 2 hoods from Providence, only minutes before Jack Nicholson murders them on a beach). The progression of Ryan’s life involves numerous twists and turns, the result of which makes for a sweeping tale of family, revenge, and survival as he confronts the reality of what he hopes his life will turn out to be. The novel takes on a very different atmosphere than the first, trading New England for the the sunny West Coast, bouncing around San Diego, Las Vegas, and the city of dreams itself, Los Angeles. A young widower named Danny Ryan, his elderly father and his 18-month-old son, Ian, are setting off from Providence, R.

Trying to balance difficult family matters while trying to do business can be frustrating, and Danny worries about being a good father. The crime fiction genre has no shortage of memorable mob sagas by such practitioners as Mario Puzo, James Ellroy, and Dennis Lehane. Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow.Winslow creates characters with so much depth and feeling, you can't help but to care for them, especially with Danny. Somehow getting involved in the Hollywood movie scene can not be considered the wisest move, but at least it was an entertaining prelude to what promises to be a cataclysmic showdown to come. There’s not even a cover out for this one yet and I’m already wondering how I can get my hands on book 3. This is a typical Winslow tome filled with a ton of characters--we still hear from a bunch of folks in Rhode Island--but the main focus is, of course, Danny and his new start.

As Danny tries to help Diane, he goes to war against new enemies who don’t want him moving in on their West Coast action, and their two worlds pull them in different, dangerous directions.Buen ritmo narrativo, quizás menos acción, pero bien narrada, buenos personajes y esa atmósfera de los bajos fondos y el hampa, que tan bien sabe su autor trasladarla a una novela, y que nos hace sentir como si fuéramos uno más de la banda de los Murphy. Rather than providing the in-your-face high energy that we became accustomed to in City On Fire, City Of Dreams has a more brooding atmosphere. In City of Dreams, Winslow once again takes a large cast of characters, anchored by Ryan, and multiple related plot strands, and manoeuvres them at breakneck speed across various points in time, without ever losing control over the pace and narrative.