When a freak electrical accident causes a power line worker to gain super-human abilities he decides to use these powers to rid the streets of the crescent city of crime. Everything is great for a while until the police begin to seem useless. Taking things into his own hands the Recluse is born, but the ramifications may be far greater than anything anyone was willing to pay.
I received a physical copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. I will start by saying the blurb on the back of the book is completely useless. It makes it seem like the Recluse is the big bad in the book and Franc and his partner Detective Brown have to fight their way out of it. In reality that issue is solved by the end of chapter one and the rest of the book is what happens afterwards. I don't feel that the blurb is useful in any way because of this. The blurb should give me something to look forward to that this did not provide. The one above is my own, as it always is when I write a review.
I found the characters in this book hard to like, especially Detective Brown and his wife. This may just be someone who has always grown up in the country and who has a general distaste for city and slang, but even a friend of mine from East Chicago was shaking his head at some of the dialogue in this book between the detective and Jul. That being said, if we ignore the characters the plot has a lot to offer. It needs edited, but it is still readable. There are places where words are missing, typos, and a lack of both periods and commas throughout. Typos and the rest happen with indie authors. It is to be expected since editors don't always catch everything, if they use one. I don't generally hold it against them. However, after the 20th time reading "got-damn" I'm kind of over it. I'm peachy with cussing. I cuss all the time. But, either do it or don't. Don't half-ass it.
Alright, I've said the bad. On to the good. World building was there. I was able to get an idea of the layout of the city that the author wanted to convey and you could definitely tell the emotions of the characters involved. This book will invoke some emotions in you. If eye-rolling is an emotion, in my case. Perhaps for someone who is from a big city and is familiar with the types of people depicted in this book this book would be more enjoyable. If there actually are people like this. I really don't know since I tend to avoid the high drama types.
This book does end on a bit of a cliff-hanger and if you felt a bond develop between yourself and Brown over the course of these pages you would want to read on. Personally, I'll be stopping at this one. No offense intended to the author by any means. Like I said the plot was good and interesting. I started the book at noon one day and had it finished by noon the next day. The characters just didn't do it for me. The baby in the book could be an interesting moving on point.
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