Doors Open 
Customer Ratings: - easy money. a very long drawn out story with light weight characters & a very week plot & predictable ending,loved rebus but this was poor.why not utilise
siobhan clarke into a new series of crime thrillers that would bring your fans back onside, but no more easy money books like this please. - Awful - perfect for an ITV drama mini-series. Terrible. Shallow, no characterisation, cliche after cliche and reads like its been commissioned for ITV as a drama mini-series.
What will Rankin do now Rebus has retired? If this is the best he can do, then we might well see Rebus back soon again. - As good as any Rebus novel. This book seems to get very mixed reviews, but I for one thoroughly enjoyed it. It can proudly stand next to any of the Rebus novels. I m generally a rather slow reader, but I finished this one in no time.
- Doors still open, but only just!. If you re a fan of the Rebus series, in particular, I m afraid you may feel a little let down by Doors Open . If you re a fan of Rankin s work in general, the same is true again. Rankin has set a sky-high standard with Rebus, and with Watchman more than proved his ability in another genre, but there s something about this outing from the master of crime fiction that doesn t quite do it for the reader.
The book is about a group of friends who, with the aid of the local gangster and an art student, plan and carry out the perfect heist together. But of course, it all goes pear-shaped. Yes, it s a bit cliché as a storyline, but there are still enough twists and turns to keep you more or less hooked. And the plot, characters and dialogue are all put together in that classic style that has made Rankin so good in the first place. So the book certainly isn t all bad, not by a long shot.
But then it all starts to fizzle out in the final four or five chapters. All the hard work that has gone before comes undone with the cliché ending. If you re a stickler for a good ending, the chances are you ll have read one like it before elsewhere and will find this one a real anticlimax. Up until then it s a fairly riveting read.
Maybe if there is to be no more Rebus, Ian Rankin should go back to Watchman territory, the spy thriller he did a mighty fine job of before he introduce us to - and maybe even spoiled us with - the good Inspector R. Doors Open might not stop you from buying Ian Rankin s books completely, but it may make you wary about shelling out for his next non-Rebus outing.
- A pleasant suprise - not Rebus. I have read many, but certainly not all, the Rebus series and was pleased with the new book I was given as a present. The dust cover of the hard backed version even suggests that it is a Rebus novel and it took me a little while to realise that he was not about to appear, except in one anonymous reference. Maybe I am a bit slow, or easily fooled by book cover subliminal advertising. However I liked the twist of allegiance from Police to criminal - I don t think inspector Ransome will have quite the loyal following and support. I enjoyed the book, it was easy to read and made good references to the current Edinburgh traffic systems, although I did wonder if this might date the book in the future. The plot was OK if a little contrived, but we are talking fiction, and maybe the conclusion was a bit rushed. I would certainly recommend it to friends and family. Good entertainment.
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Doors Open (ID: 0752890700)
