Review: Nick Stephenson has a Way With Words
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
Short and to the point, that's how I like to write reviews. Here goes.Leopold Blake continues to do what he does best, see the details that others don't. In this sequel, Nick Stephenson added a slightly more descriptive aspect to his writing and I for one enjoyed this. This book brought us to murder scenes through the eyes of a murderer. A bit more descriptive than I remember from Stephenson in Panic, the first in the series, this was welcome to me in Departed. If I'm going to read about a killer, give me the dark, gory stuff. Stephenson did just that. I still enjoyed the banter between Leopold and Jerome though the relationship seemed a bit different in this book.Stephenson writes great fight scenes and spreads them throughout the book keeping me engaged and the pages turning.I did see most of the plot twists coming and though that usually sours me on a book, I was wrong about one thing and that kept me guessing through the rest of the story.Bottom line, Departed is a great second piece from Nick Stephenson and you can't go wrong with the Leopold Blake series. It is a slightly different style than the first book, but I think it is just Stephenson developing as a writer and Leopold growing and changing as a character. I enjoyed it and I know you will too.