Review: Reasonably good
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2013
I read the first of this series, Vatican Knights, some months back and I was truthfully on the fence about purchasing another.  The first novel is serviceable, but not spectacular, and the second in the series is pretty much the same.  The author does a good job of setting the tone for the world his characters live in and his writing is solid, but truthfully I just found that there wasn't enough writing done about the main character, Kimball Hayden.  With most thrillers I expect that I will get at least alternating chapters focused on the villains or supporting characters in the book.  In Shepherd One, I was fully a third of the way through the book and I'd only had maybe three "chapters" about Hayden, and none of them really developed the character any further.  One of the chapters was just a rehash of the background I got in the first book.  It picked up a bit in the latter two thirds of the book, but overall I was just left with a feeling that I didn't know Hayden any better.  I haven't completely written the series off, I could see myself picking up the third book in a pinch, but I can't honestly say I'll go out of my way for it.