Review: Just okay.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
The premise of this book caught my attention and the chilling prologue inspired me to keep going, but despite the interesting story I found the book to be just okay.  Thomas Blackdown starts out as an intriguing character, but fails to deliver.  He's bitter, angry, humorless, and has all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop.  I would have liked to see him use his training and wits rather than charge headlong into every situation and walk into every trap.  He's constantly saying things like, "I'll kill you," or "you'll pay for this."  It would have been a lot more fun to see him fool his enemies and destroy them from within rather than "react" to every situation and try to fight his way out.  There were also several editing issues, especially closer to the end, which were glaring and forced me to reread the sentence several times to understand that the author meant.  Not a huge deal, but still distracting.