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2.0
I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this.
I would really give this 2.5 stars, and chalk most of it to not being my thing genre-wise. It's pretty gritty but sometimes in a kind of borderline-over-the-top way? And sometimes I felt like the bad guy was like way too smart, to the point where I got frustrated with the main character couldn't outsmart him, but that's clearly a Me thing.
I will also say, though, that the presented background plot thing with Native folks was... rough. At first I thought it was just going to be an off-hand mention, and I rolled my eyes but was like "okay, whatever," but it kept going. Folks, please, can we not. The lack of specificity just reveals how convenient this is for authors to use and it's really not good and it can and will ruin a book for me. (Though it is not the only reason I didn't love this, is just a big reason why I can't recommend it to folks.)
Anyway--it was fairly engaging, and if you like gritty and can ignore the racism. The cliffhanger at the end was very good and the next book might be interesting/reveal more, so that's cool!
I would really give this 2.5 stars, and chalk most of it to not being my thing genre-wise. It's pretty gritty but sometimes in a kind of borderline-over-the-top way? And sometimes I felt like the bad guy was like way too smart, to the point where I got frustrated with the main character couldn't outsmart him, but that's clearly a Me thing.
I will also say, though, that the presented background plot thing with Native folks was... rough. At first I thought it was just going to be an off-hand mention, and I rolled my eyes but was like "okay, whatever," but it kept going. Folks, please, can we not. The lack of specificity just reveals how convenient this is for authors to use and it's really not good and it can and will ruin a book for me. (Though it is not the only reason I didn't love this, is just a big reason why I can't recommend it to folks.)
Anyway--it was fairly engaging, and if you like gritty and can ignore the racism. The cliffhanger at the end was very good and the next book might be interesting/reveal more, so that's cool!
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