Light Before Day

Couldn t finish.Read the first five characters and the last two, couldn t keep reading this story Plot and lifestyles of the characters don t bother me but the writing style was terrible Seems like lately I keep downloading couple books and wasting my time trying to read them.

I can see why this is known to be Christopher Rice s most controversial novel to date Light Before Day is part detective novel, part thriller, and a definite sneaky expose on the sordid past and present of sexual predators in Hollywood Particularly sexual predators who prey on young men.The novel follows Adam Murphy, a young gay man struggling with alcohol dependency, as he tries to prove his salt as an investigative journalist amid the glitz, glamour, and alcohol and drug drenched streets of Ho [...]

Christopher Rice may be the son of ultra famous Anne Rice, reigning queen of the Gothic novel whose lush, supernatural tales have changed forever how readers look at vampires, witches and ghosts, but he s inherited than his share of her talent, plus his unique voice to boot.This is the third novel of his I ve read so far, following Density of Souls and The Snow Garden , and thus far, it is my favorite In Adam Murphy, a young reporter whose emotional baggage is compounded by an irascible temper [...]

If a semigood whodunnit had a stomach churning noir feel with all characters gay guys well, you d have Light Before Day Christopher Rice exercises his writing muscles than his mother but he is not a better writer He seems intent on writing mysteries with sprawling narratives he is courageous in that aspect I did not appreciate the main character an alcoholic gay guy with nothing but intuition Yes this thing is what is loveable in characters like Sookie Stackhouse, but here it s not at all an at [...]

Gritty story with a plethora of twists and turns and a large cast of characters.

In his third novel, Christopher Rice truly begins to bloom as a mystery thriller novelist His first two works involved high school and college age teenagers caught in various mysterious circumstances This work expands his range to a urban mystery.His main character, Adam, finds himself struggling as a reporter for Glitz magazine, a gay men s rag in Los Angeles Adam wants to bring real stories to the magazine but is thwarted by his editor who continually prefers to print light hearted trash Fina [...]

This is a bit of an unusual review because it s going to give little information about the story involved Light Before Day is written by Christopher Rice, son of Anne Rice of Interview with the Vampire fame Many will probably say he s riding on his mother s famous coat tails, but this novel will prove them wrong.In an afterword to the book, the author has a dialogue with his mother in which he says he wants to write a novel a la Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler In Light Before Day, he s don [...]

Fiction Yes, Christopher, son of Anne, but don t worry, he doesn t use the word preternatural once, and even gets some great lines in, like Around six, I thought about getting some dinner the way some people think about buying a vacation home Unfortunately, as much as Christopher loves using two or three metaphors a paragraph, his success rate is really only fifty percent Some aren t very good, some I couldn t even decipher, but he tries hard This is nominally a mystery Our main character, Adam, [...]

The following review was originally posted on my book blog The Book Challengers.For a book that s supposed to keep me on the edge of my seat and intrigued the entire time, this one bored me way too much I don t even know exactly why, but it wasn t possible for me to get into this book and therefore I didn t really care for the hero Adam and his quest I read the story in random chunks and I somehow found quite a few other things to occupy my time with when instead I should have been engrossed by [...]

I couldn t wait for my sister s copy so I bought myself one Biggest waste of 6.50 ever I have liked the two other books I have read by Christopher Rice, I can t say that about this one I don t even know where to start There were to many characters, I couldn t keep up with who was who for the majority of the book The book also had to many twist and turns that were so unbelievable The other two books have been charactered based with a plausible plot This one was to far out there and his metophors [...]

Christopher Rice s Light Before Day is a really good criminal mystery that keeps you on your toes through all the book.It s a story about recovering alcoholic journalist, who stumbles on a story about lost boys, exploding meth labs, vigilante, pedophiles, old grudges, revenges and ex lovers The story is filled with many different story lines, many different villains and through all the story I came up with many different outcomes, but at the end all those ideas of mine didn t hit the mark at all [...]

I ve read a little over 1 4 of this book It s well written, and it s a fairly decent book, but for some reason I can t quite put my finger on, I am having trouble focusing on this book I really think it s just because there s so much going on in it I m going to unfortunately have to take a break from this one and try again later Okay, so I ve tried to finish this about 4 times now, and I just can t do it I regret it, because it isn t terrible, but I just feel as though this isn t a book for me I [...]

If you ve read Christopher Rice before there are no surprises here A bunch of characters run around having sex, doing drugs, drinking, and many of them are up to no good illegal things This one has of a tone of a mystery and less gothic details and is also a little less over the top than the other books I ve read by this author I did enjoy how all the disparate parts of the plot came together in the end A fun read for me If you liked his previous books you will like this one If you didn t like [...]

I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review Adam Murphy wants to be a serious journalist Unfortunately, he spends his days writing copy about underwear and abs for a gay lifestyle magazine When a troubled young porn star brings him a tip about a recently deceased marine s secret visit to an infamous pimp for underage boys, Adam is determined to break the story until someone starts threatening his life.Undeterred, Adam begins to unravel a deadly conspiracy [...]

Right away I read this as an updated version of a Raymond Chandler type novel The Big Sleep specifically since I spent a lot of time long ago analyzing both the book and the movie and by saying updated I m showing my lack of experience with contemporary hard boiled fiction With the various California locations, characters ranging from filthy rich to dirt poor, drug makers, sellers, and users, sexual depravity, mansions in the hills, yachts in the ocean, assassins for hire this is as hard boiled [...]

I entered to win this via the First Reads giveaways I didn t win it but my brother did After borrowing it from him boy, am I glad I didn t win As evident by my shelving, I did not finish this book I made it to the end of the sentence that was started on page 256 and ended on 257 I don t even care enough to just skip to the end of the book to see how the story played out I have no problem that the main character, Adam, was gay In fact this book was a lot less sexual than I thought it would be My [...]

After several weeks of trying to get into this one, I did something I have not done since high school I gave up on a book with no intention of going back This one was poorly written, choppy, and full of puns that even made me cringe I love a good pun I think Chris Rice must have been trying to write a mystery in almost a flim noir style Dark protagonist, beautiful victim his twist victim and protagonist are both gay , dangerous mystery, and gag worthy similes and other terrible metaphors I offic [...]

Twenty something and openly gay, Adam Murphy has hopes of being a serious investigative reporter, but any attempts in his present job are frustrated by his boss But troublesome events in the Los Angeles gay community soon take over, events that cause him to loose his job but at the same time open the way to a new opportunity as assistant to best selling author James Wilton Wilton wants Adam to investigate these events as potential material for his next novel Adam soon finds himself not just inve [...]

What started as a really good and interesting read began to bore me near the end The action never stopped, the suspense never stopped, but nor did the constant changes to the plot line and the constant conspiracy theories Just when I d get into the book, figure out who the bad guys were and cosy up for the hell ride, something dramatic would once again change events and the direction of the novel I m all up for a great who done it , but not one where all evidence points in one direction e.g the [...]

There s no doubt that Christopher Rice is a prodigiously talented writer, or that Light Before Day is an ambitious and gritty work of fiction From this reader s perspective, the novel could have benefited, though, from a slight reigning in of that ambition I lost count of the number of theories of crimes and criminals the narrative sets up, only to knock them down with new revelations and developments a few chapters or a few pages later What really makes this novel sing is the nuance with which [...]

I would have liked to be able to say that I loved this book, since Gay fic is pretty hard to come by here on the island, but alas I can not say that It was cheesy in some parts with lines like his eyes were so blue he needed two pool boys just to maintain them in other parts it was boring and I just couldn t get into it as well as I did with The Snow Garden which I loved Will I give him another chance Most likley I will,like I said, it is hard to get good gay fic here I can t wait to get back to [...]

An interesting look at the drug culture of young men and particularly gay men A thriller that takes a little reading to get you interested and then you can t put it down Lots of interesting twists and turns that keep you guessing what is going to happen next Another winner from Christopher Rice How do all these stories come together is not revealed until the very end this is great read.

Not proud for having finished this one I m not sure what f ed up stuff Christopher Rice has seen, but I don t want to read a book about it It s a shame he s not a bad writer, and I recall enjoying his first book, but this one is a mess ugly subject matter, and not at all engrossing.

Not as soapy as The Snow Garden or A Density of Souls, and while I enjoyed the mystery for the most part, there were so many twists and turns that I lost track of characters and ultimately didn t have much invested in how it turned out Also, our protagonist was a bit too arrogant for me.

Gritty, raw and real with surprising moments of tenderness as well as gut punching heartbreak I lost sleep over this book totally worth it.

Too many characters to keep straight, too many plot turns to keep straight as well Still, I read it all the way through, wanting to know the mystery s end, and I don t regret it.

2 words Needlessly convoluted.

Magazine writer turned investigative journalist Light Before Day is a story similar to what you expect from a crime mystery novel, but Mr Rice throws his own twists and turns in and makes it even better I try not to compare writers, but it reminds me a bit of Alexandra Sokoloff s Huntress books That s high praise coming from me, as that s one of my top 3 favorite series The characters have such depth, you can either personally identify with them, or someone you know reminds you of them The story [...]

I just couldn t finish itI really enjoyed Rice s earlier works, especially A Density of Souls, but it seems he was trying too hard with this one I couldn t get into his writing style here, and was throwing everything in this story all at once There is potential in the story, but needs better editing.

Worth the readI did not know what to expect when I began this book It was a little slow to start and it seemed like 2 separate books Don t stop reading This story is intricate It pulls you in and holds on tight Christopher Rice is a compelling story teller.