Review: Average writing, average plotting, not an engaging lead
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
Sorry, but I wanted to like this series. Ryan Lock just seems a compendium of so many other action leads from so many other books, and there are so many cliches -- just couldn't get enthused. They're readable, and I'n not saying Black can't write, but some originality is in need here. The black sidekick with the purple Caddy -- really? Even as he makes excuses for it, he leaves it in -- why? Other things just keep jumping out, taking me out of the story to make me say "why would he do that?"Mr. Black, let's take Ryan a few steps out of the zone he's currently in, give him some new peeps, and set him free to be the character we know he can be.