Review: Another side of Smith's bizarre Minnesota
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2012
I greatly enjoyed the Billy Lafitte books, and so I was happy to turn to this one. There's a kinship among these works, but Octavia, Mick and the rest of the characters here are well removed from Billy et al., even if the setting is still Minnesota. Smith's greatest ability is to convince you to pull for his unlikable, highly flawed characters. He does it by making them entirely believable and by giving them -- especially Octavia -- some dialogue that'll strip off pieces of skin. You'll wince and laugh at the same time.