I sat down to think about what to write in this review and immediately I came up with five things I didn’t like about this book. But I’m glad I had a chance to read it. Everything builds up to a some big moments that felt like something out of a heist movie.
And I love heist movies.
This is the second book I have read by this author and it also contained a lot of contemporary buzzwords having to do with the culture wars of America these days. I wonder how they’ll age and how readers of the future will deal with it. Sometimes these appear so often that I was wishing for a little more subtlety.
To get to the big ending it takes a lot of build up. As I read through all of this I was really hoping that the payoff would be worth it – there were entire sections of just downloading background information. These parts were slow moving and I felt like there could have been a way to handle this.
I liked the main characters – flawed but admirable – and I disliked the bad guys (again – subtlety please!). The last thing that annoyed me was the use of time hops that occurred here and there. It wasn’t immediately clear where you were in the timeline, and sometimes that felt like a cheap trick to keep up on our toes.
Despite all those complaints it was worth it – great ending and worth the read.
Next I am reading Accidental Shepherd by Liese Greensfelder.
