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Piemanthe3rd
Aug 08, 2014Piemanthe3rd rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
A fairly poorly done first effort by Bradman to take the reins of Parker's character. The story starts out by essentially kiboshing a variety of good quality plot lines (i.e. Sunny Randal, Jesse's drinking progress) that don't fit the authors own interests and goes downhill from there. Several characters seem to appear for little reason (and sometimes even against all sane reason) other than to be a call back to previous books and others remain completely one dimensional and boring. Perhaps the most glaring issue comes when Jesse, for no reason, decides to begin working outside the law in what, to me, seems like nothing more than a poorly thought out movie style fantasy that completely does not fit the character. While I was glad to see the series continue, I was saddened by how drastically the quality dropped. I never expected Bradman to be a perfect mimic, but this isn't even good.