Zac

This is easily the shortest Bosch book so far, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It gets going fairly quickly, but the story doesn't quite hit that well, it's a much more fast-paced novel in comparison to the standard Bosch fare. Still a good read, but one of the weaker efforts.

This is a stronger book when it's Bosch's tale, and much weaker when it's McCaleb's. Something about McCaleb just hasn't worked as well for me in Connelly's writing.

Big fan of the message, but I do think this either needed to be shortened or extended. It's more of a manifesto, and I suppose it does that. But I felt the need for more detail was more evident, even if I agreed with the points listed. However, I don't think it's strong enough in its current form to work if a manifesto is the goal. A shorter work could work better for progressing that message further.

But I do think it's got merit. I think it's stuck between a rock and a hard place, and needed to embrace either becoming a detailed case study, or a shortened plea.

The ork portion of the story is enjoyable and fun to read once it gets going. The mechanicus portions are a hard slog though. Particularly in the middle to latter stages of the book where they take a lot of the prime focus away from the orks.

Finished this in two days. While I do find the crux of the story engaging and an enjoyable change of pace for Connelly the rather lazy romance in this novel let's it down quite a bit. One of Connelly's weaker works I've read so far that's for sure.

It takes a moment to get used to considering every previous Bosch book has been in the third-person, but it works for the story here. One of the better stories of Connelly's work I've read so far.

Very good at what it's aiming to do, and that makes me never want to read or think of this book ever again.