Review: Much better than past books
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
So I keep reading the Shiv Crew series because they are dark and gritty (sort of like the Anita Blake books before they turned...well you know) but the plot lines always confused me. They never seemed to have a point or goal for the book. It was always just Rune running around acting and reacting to situations/enemies but never THINKING.Well this book fixed that. Rune has a head on her shoulders and she proves her brains are just as good as her brawn in this book. There was a solid plot here and it served to drive the action of the whole story. For once the violence felt like it had a purpose and I loved that.Don't get me wrong, this book is still dark. The themes have the same overtones as they have had in the past and I'd even say they get darker here. But we see actual Character Development in this one and that's worth a thousand pages of action any day.