Review: Better than Casino Shuffle
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
Antonio Cruz is back.  He's a little less perfect (although still with his beautiful tie and always-available handkerchief) and a lot more human in this book.  We get a bit of his childhood along with a hurricane, a wanna-be mob (Connecticut doesn't seem to be the big league mob-wise) and an army of terra cotta soldiers as he moves through 'his' casino keeping everything going.There are fewer details about running the VIP area of the casino but LOTS more plot, including several loose ends that make me look ahead to volume 3. Especially if we learn how Antonio has grown from the childhood described here to chief butler at the casino.I like the way J. Fields has brought more depth to characters like Liz Fiore, Sonny Wu and Mark Ford.  This looks like becoming a series that will keep my interest in the major players as well as enjoying the plots.