Ratings22
Average rating2.8
This book is only a two star for many reasons, first of all being that it took way too long for the plot to actually develop. I loved how the book picked up pace with the bad guys surfacing and all, but then it just plain stopped. There was too much extra in this book. Between each major action in the plot there was a myriad of filler that just didn't need to be there, almost like Hamilton was going for quantity over quality with this book. There was also a story error when Anita calls Claudia powerful for healing quickly when in fact chapters before Anita was the one who healed her. A major event in chapter 48 that was only briefly mentioned once upset me. I would have much rather seen a full detail if it instead if the amount of fluff in this book. I had hopes for Hamilton having read Skin Trade but she's just lost her touch.
Again, that's a relative ★★★, not an absolute ★★★. The two stars added to the first are earned by (as another Goodreader said) flashes of brilliance (in the storytelling, never the writing; never, ever the writing) and flashes of the old Anita.