Title: A depressing, very unpleasant page-turner
Review: The primary purpose of my review is to echo the review provided by C-C-Peterson. I, too, started with the first novel in this series, and found the violence in that novel to be excessive, but appropriate to the overall plot. However, the gore, sadism, and the time spent being dragged through the muck of human evil in this second novel left me repulsed and gloomy. The killers in this novel are evil personified, and if the author is to be credited with anything, it is that he accurately portrays what might happen to those who survive such an encounter. I felt a little like that myself when I finished the book. I read noir for entertainment, but I think I stumbled into something darker than noir. I finished the book to be sure they got the bad guys and that they would all die; I think I stayed engaged for much the same reason people stare at an accident on the highway.
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