Just finished Dervla McTiernan’s latest, Three Reasons for Revenge, and this one’s set firmly in Melbourne. Detective Sergeant Jude Lee is a 40-yo detective engaged in clashes with an ex-AFL star who’s joined the police after his AFL career is over. However, he’s a loud-mouthed ■■■■■■■■ hooked on meth but whose father is a high-ranking cop…also an ■■■■■■■■.
She interviews a woman who’s come into report that her psychologist has sexually assaulted her, but she then disappears from sight and seems to be quite fictional. The psychologist is quickly murdered and the cops have got the killer…unfortunately framed.
Story rattles along full bore and a very satisfactory read. Unfortunately loses every skerrick of credibility when she refers to a fellow cop who’s English, coming from Pembrokeshire. Maybe coming from Galway, she does realise that that’s in Wales.
Didn’t love this one as much as the first two in the series, and actually struggled a bit with it at times. As with the first two, the ending was stunning though. I will read book 4, but might have a little break from Stormlight instead of ploughing straight into it.
I liked how Sanderson finished off The Wheel of Time series and quite enjoyed his Skyward series so I started the Mistborn series.
I got through the first book but really struggled with it and so never bothered to read further.
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Was really looking forward to this and I wasn’t disappointed. A fast-paced book that benefits from the worldbuilding and some of the characters from the First Law trilogy. Joe’s dark humour shines through again with some new characters that are despicable people, but also very engaging. I guess a harsh and brutal world is going to give you some harsh and brutal characters. Old mate Cosca is back and some of the interactions between him and Friendly were extremely funny.
