Review: Good Book, room for improvement
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2012
This was the 3rd McBride book I'd read.  I enjoyed Burial Ground and Vector Borne quite a bit. I'm curious as to the order they were actually written.Reviewing this one however confounds me a bit.  It held me, I liked reading it, and I think it had his best main character yet.  I really liked the lead characters sense of humor.  The book is descriptive and I could feel the desert heat.  I only found a couple of spelling errors.But this is why I found rating it somewhat difficult. There is no real surprise to the story.  The reader is pretty much given the antagonist early on, and the "twist" ending I found very predictable.  The ending just felt flat, like when you're really hungry & sit down to what appears to be a wonderful meal...yet everything is bland and leaves you disappointed.Hence why I wonder the order they were written.  This one shows better character development then the other books, but overall is a weaker book.  If my review sounds neutral, well I think that is a reflection of the "vanilla" flavor I got from the book. But hey, it was free and it's a fast read.