Review: Promising, but not quite there ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
My second Michael McBride read, and though I did not enjoy it as much as Snowblind, I did get quite the kick out of a scientist's efforts to find the reason behind a spate of mass-murders in one particular region of the world. The idea was excellent - with the early scene featuring a young Harding struggling to survive a mass murder at his University particularly effective - but the execution was somewhat lacking.Having studied neuropsychiatry, the overly scientific language and technical jargon didn't cause me half as many problems as trying to remember the names of all the mass-murderers and which one fitted in where. I also picked the ending very early on (well, most of it), somewhat robbing this of the "rug being pulled out from under me" factor - which I suspect comprises much of the good will toward this short, fast read.3 Smoking Shotgun Casings for F9