Color Blind (Kate McKinnon, #2) by Jonathan Santlofer

Color Blind (Kate McKinnon, #2) Reviews

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  Linda Branham

  Another Kate McKinnin murder mystery.
  In this story the serial killer leaves an unusual painting at each crime scene, weird paintings with the items colored incorrectly .The homicidal artist who happens to be colorblind and is only able to see the world in shades of grey. The NYPD is baffled by the "clues", and they call in Kate as a consultant
  
  Kate at first refuses to get involved because she likes her work in art, loves her successful wealthy lawyer husband Richard Rothstein, and she has never fully recovered from the Death Artist investigation - although the unusually colored paintings do interest her. However, when Richard is found murdered with a painting beside him, the investigation turns personal.
  
  This serial killer novel has a lot of insight into the art world from painting techniques to attending a show, etc. Throughout the novel, Santlofer often gives his readers quick lessons in art history - not too overly done. He gives us just enough to be able to comprehend the world we're in and the people we're facing. I even learned about the Nazi's Deranged Artists exhibits back in 1937. Santlofer also then brings us right into the killer's shoes ( a look into the mind of a madman), a technique I really appreciated. It gave the story that extra little something that made the whole read greatly entertaining.
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  Lizbeth Morgade

  Esta historia contiene un buen argumento, lenta por momentos que desafortunadamente se vuelve predecible ya que se escribe al mero estilo Hollywoodense.
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  MaguiWorld

  No suelo leer libros así, y en realidad cuando lo compré no sabía que era de ese genero de literatura. Comencé a leerlo de noche y tuve que dejarlo porque los relatos que se podían leer eran demasiado para mi. (Cabe destacar que no me gusta el genero, lo esquivo bastante porque soy muy impresionable y no me gusta las cosas de terror.)
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  "Daltónico" trata sobre Kate McKinnon, historiadora del arte y ex-policia, que se ve envuelta en un caso policial que ella intentaba alejarse pero que no logra hacerlo ya que el asesino reclama su atención. Este asesino, es un psicópata que tiene la extraña y macabra manera de asesinar a sus victimas, destripandolas y utilizando su sangre para pintar en un lienzo que deja en el lugar del crimen, como su firma personal. Tensión y suspenso son dos cosas que no faltan en ningún momento.
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  Bueno, como dije antes este libro es muy impresionante para mi, en cuanto a que leía y me horrorizaba en cada momento que el autor describe cómo eran las escenas del crimen. Terminé leyéndolo de día porque se me había imposible leerlo de noche antes de irme a dormir. Y eso habla mas que bien Jonathan porque que un autor tenga ese poder de impresionar a ese nivel a alguien, merece mis respetos.
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  La historia es increíble. Mas alla de los detalles macabros que a mi me hicieron modificar mi rutina de lectura, la trama, los personajes, el por qué es realmente magnifico. Por eso no deje de leerlo. Era como "No puedo leer mas de esto" pero a la vez "Necesito saber qué va a pasar". Así sucesivamente. Cuando uno termina de leer el libro queda totalmente pasmado porque no se esperaba venir las cosas que sucedieron.
  
  Lo que podría llegar a decir que no me gustó mucho es como se resuelve el caso, como finaliza. Tal vez esperaba algo mas... "wooow" pero es muy real. Lo que tampoco esta mal, porque el libro no es de fantasía ni de acción como para que el final sea una gran escena. Por eso no es algo que puedo criticar mucho. A lo mejor uno ve el hecho de los asesinatos como algo fuera de lo normal porque no esta habituado a eso, y el final como que te deja con un sabor un poco amargo. Pero no es para nada desalentador.
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  ¿Recomiendo este libro? Si, para aquellos que puedan leer escenas macabras (y tambien para aquellos que le gusta el genero policial). Esta es mi lectura recomendada de Halloween.
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  Carlos Emilio

  I'll start off saying I was enthralled by this book up to a certain point where I felt the author slowed down and left holes in the personalities of his characters just so later on he could give them certain quirks that woulf fit his desire for an ending; now don't get me wrong I'm not saying this book is full of Deus Ex Machinas nor am I saying the characters lack depth , its simply that there seems to be this small hole in the whole book up until the ending and its only purpose seems to be to fit the pieces in place.
  That said, the book is not bad, if not excellent, it is an enjoyable read with enough depth to keep you hooked and not so profound that you will have to put it down to reflect on the last page you read.
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  Elizabeth

  I really wanted to like this. I read The Death Artist back in 2008, and I loved it. I rated it 5 stars, and I remember staying up late into the night to finish it. Perhaps my tastes have changed since then, but I just couldn't get into the sequel. I found Kate self-absorbed and unlikeable, and the writing irritating. I was well aware that it was a man writing a woman's POV, because so many of Kate's thoughts didn't sound right. She talked about going out with her "women friends", for example, which made me grit my teeth. It sounds exactly like something a man would say. Anyway, there were a bunch of instances like those, and eventually I just had to admit I didn't care enough about what happened to keep reading.
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  Cyn Cooley

  I enjoyed this murder mystery though not nearly as much as the first one in the series, "The Death Artist". That said if you're in the mood for a good, creepy mystery that is set in the art world, you will probably enjoy it.
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  Meghan

  This was an okay book. A little far fetched and I wasn't thrilled with the ending, but it was a good, quick read. I didn't relate to the characters or care much about them. Not sure I'll be reading any more if this series.
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  Jenny (Reading Envy)

  I had read Killing Art by the same author, who seems to write mysteries about art. An interesting premise, where the serial killer is color blind.
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  Hope R

  Want to read more of this author
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  Holly

  Quite good, dual mysteries that appear to be related but are not - good characters, plot keeps you guessing until the end
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  Masha Lagonell

  Just gory... Nothing too special.
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  Jennifer Monsalve

  Creo que me leí este en 2013 cuando comencé realmente a disfrutar de la lectura, fue un excelente regalo de un amigo del colegio! Nunca había leído historias policiacas, excelente trama.
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  Pinheadsito Vega

  Buen libro pero hubo partes en las que se caía la trama, pero en general un muy buen libro de suspenso y policíaco
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  Alexandra Sánchez

  Lo que inicia como una investigación policiaca un poco cliché, se torna interesante cuando el "asesino daltónico" toma el protagonismo y nos muestra su oscuro pasado y una vida llena de maltratos, los cuales han determinado sus actos en el presente.
  
  La trama esta cargada de misterio, drama, suspenso y un toque de romance, por lo que a mi parecer, es bastante completa y te invita a seguir leyendo en cada momento. Aunque hay partes que me resultaron un poco predecibles, el autor se las arregla para sorprendernos y mostrarnos detalles que a simple vista no se notan.
  
  Lo que me gusta de este libro, es que el asesino tiene un perfil psicológico muy bien elaborado, por lo que es inevitable que llegues a empatizar con él. Si bien no es una historia muy original, incluye muchas referencias que los amantes del arte sabrán apreciar y que le da un poco más de atractivo a la novela.
  
  Este es un libro que recomiendo a quienes quieren una lectura ligera, entretenida y cargada de emociones. Sin embargo, les advierto que hay escenas un poco fuertes que quizá no sean aptas para sensibles.
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  Leigh

  A murder. A painting. A trail of terror. In this book Kate McKinnon investigates the murder of her husband, as part of a string of serial murders. The killer leaves behind a vivid painting at the scene. As an art critic and collector herself, she knows there is something behind the art that is left.
  
  This book had some high points, but it had a lot of lower points that just dragged on for me. A used to work in an art museum (on the membership side, not the artistic side) and that gave me some insight into the art world. But I did wonder if some of the discussion about art would interest the everyday reader. But, maybe the everyday reader wouldn't pick up the book because of its focus on the art.
  
  Overall, the book was okay. Nothing special. Nothing memorable. Just a read.
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  Juli

  This is a perfectly adequate page-turner. I’ve been reading some heavier stuff and needed to take a break and read something that wouldn’t really challenge me or engage me too much - I’d found this in a Little Free Library, and it fit the bill for what I needed.
  The premise of our color-blind villain is weird and I don’t think it’s based in reality, at all. The portrayal of his mental illness is shitty. Just shitty.
  Oh, there’s a big red herring, and once it’s figured out, that whole secondary plot is just tossed aside. I didn’t think much of it at the time (the point of me reading this was to not think much) but it’s weird. Not good-weird, not intentional-weird, more like “who the hell edited this book” weird.
  Anyway, I was entertained enough.
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  Mel

  I fell in love with The Death Artist (Kate McKinnon #1), but even more so with Colorblind. One of the first pages stood out to me so significantly because it displayed a quote: "There is nothing there.What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing...what you see is what's in your mind." by Ad Reinhardt. This stood out to me so significantly because I see it as all about perception. "Don't judge a book by it's cover" so to speak. I was bullied as a child for having physical deformities and being sickly, and fortunately it made me stronger and a better judge of character. Perception matters to me in a very sentimental way.
  Ad Reinhardt is most famous for one of his galleries the "so-called black paintings"...at first glance it is a room a black squares, but if you take the time to not judge on first glance, look closer, you can perceive so many shades of blacks and grays, and a significant amount of artistic technique and detail making these paintings a metaphor of major significance. Side note, I admire this so much the quote is tattooed on my forearm.
  Getting to the actual story without spoiling too much, the title has significance about the killer, and I am floored, in the best way, at their description of what they see as they murder and pose the victims.
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  Jesús Cardeña Morales

  El tema del asesino me ha gustdo mucho más en este libro que en el anterior. Me ha sorprendido que haya terminado siendo alguien del pasado de la protagonista, y que además saliera en el primer libro. No lo he relacionado durante toda la historia para nada. Era lo último que podía pensar.
  Lo único malo del libro es que a veces me ha parecido muy repetitivo y con muchas similitudes al anterior, pero en este el autor ha mejorado, para mi opinión.
  Por cierto, he terminado odiando la palabra "geniaaaaaaal"... ¬¬
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  Karen

  Op zich een thriller waar er veel van zijn, voorspelbaar en een beetje een voortkabbelend verhaal. Het einde vond ik wel bijzonder.
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  sunny

  AAAAAH que tensión lo último. amo tanto a kate que me gustaría poder abrazarla💔 ansiosa por leer el siguiente
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  Wendy

  Thanks to HarperCollins Publishing, I was given the chance to preview Color Blind, which is due to hit the shelves at local bookstores in October. Kate McKinnon, ex-cop turned art historian, is called in to consult on a couple of related murder cases in which the killer’s calling card includes his own paintings. Kate is reluctant to get involved with yet another police investigation, having just lived through the nightmare of the Death Artist (first book in the series); however, when her own husband is brutally murdered and a painting is found at the crime scene, she decides she must help solve the murders at all costs.
  
  I like how the author interwove the background of the characters and the information bites regarding art, painting in particular, into the story. It was not overly heavy with factual information and flowed quite smoothly. There was good character development overall. Despite the awful and gruesome murders committed by the antagonist, it was hard not to feel sorry for him to some extent. He was definitely a victim to his horrific past, and it is no wonder he turned into such a monster. I cannot say that the main character impressed me, on the other hand. She came across as slightly mechanical and at times too perfect. My favorite character by far was homicide detective, Nicky Perlmutter, the homicide detective who was not only charming and sensitive, but smart as well.
  
  I do not like to give away endings, but I have to say that this ending impressed me in the sense that it was not overly long nor did it leave too many loose ends. I also felt that it was well conceived, especially for the characters and all they had been through.
  
  On the downside, the book held no real surprises. The book was full of twists that were predictable and easy to see coming. I tend not to let that detract me from my enjoyment of books, or movies even, as I have a tendency to solve mysteries early on whether I try to or not.
  
  A good book overall. I will definitely be looking for The Death Artist the next time I am in a bookstore.
  
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  Carolina

  Al final todo lo que necesitaba para salir de un bloqueo lector era un libro de un psicopata, no le sorprende a nadie
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  Writerlibrarian

  Second novel from this artist turned writer. I might have waited before reading this one. Some of the same "technique" of red herrings and flashbacks are used to good effects but he tried to cram too much into the plot in my opinion : the gay cop, the lone wolf FBI agent, the ambivalent police chief, the pregnant girl. Sometimes less is more. But I still like the whole art scene background and the flashes of, yes, that's brilliant, I get from reading his novels. I just have to remember not to read them back to back.
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  Liz Lenz

  There was no suspense to this book. I was waiting for a big moment but it never came. Left me wanting more.
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  Enendi

  3.5 stars
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  Walter Straus

  Another sucky thriller