I usually don't read a book unless I have researched it quite extensively first. Therefore, most of my reviews tend to be very positive. Time is so limited one has to be very selective in what they read because there are so many wonderful books out there to be read yet!!

I was thrilled to finally get this book, but totally disappointed after reading it. It written in easy, simple language, and I thought it would be a quick read. I struggled to get through it, and finally did. I almost gave up more than once. It's a great story that just seems to wander all over the place. Assistant DA Giobberti, from one of the most murderous precincts in Brooklyn, is given the case of Kayla, a young 14 year old girl found dead with a gunshot wound to the heart. This case strikes home for Gio who recently lost his 5 year old daughter, Opal, to an unfortunate accident which Gio feels was his fault. He's lost interest in his job, drifts along aimlessly, mourning his daughter and his separation from his wife, Amanda. The murder case is good fiction & almost interesting, and could make this book worth reading, but is so dragged out that you want to scream by the end. While we're waiting for the murder to be solved, we're left with endless chapters of his cruising various woman that he works with. At times the story just drifts too far off course.

I had no feeling for anybody in this novel, and hope now to forget them all. I'm sorry to say I didn't enjoy this book at all. The END!

Brooklyn Assistant D.A. Andy "Gio" Giobberti is not a very attractive guy. He's a self-pitying womanizer who drinks too much and has little but contempt for his job, his colleagues, even himself. He wasn't always like that. But when his carelessness caused the death of his five-year-old daughter, life, and everything else, lost most of its meaning for him.

Gio's latest case is the apparent homicide of a young African American girl who was shot point-blank while lying in her bed at home. The obvious suspect is drug dealer "LL" who was seen fleeing the scene. Gio is ready to put him away, despite the lack of motive or any solid evidence. His own feelings of guilt have more to do with that than the merits of the case.

Readers looking for "the next John Grisham" will probably be disappointed by Reuland's book. It's not a legal thriller at all. But if you're interested in a touching story of a man's pain and self-destruction, you should find a lot to appreciate in "Hollowpoint."

Here is one of those rare, utterly authentic books that could only have been written by someone who's experienced the raw, unpretty aspects of the life it depicts. In Hollowpoint, first-novelist Reuland (and in real life, senior DA in Brooklyn) gives us two very distinctive views of grief, as well as offering a plotline that snakes in on itself in endless coils. It's a book about pain, about guilt, and about sorrow. It contains some of the finest, most authentic dialogue I've ever read and depicts some of the most believable characters to be found anywhere. This is not easy reading, but it's a book that's impossible to put down. Sadly humorous, poignant, and wrenching. Most highly recommended.