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Title: started great, ended weakly
Review: This book began with a great line and a great premise. Missing girl, fleeing kidnappers, then oh no....! What now? Rebus seemed to have gotten some of his humanity back and the case was interesting...until it wasn't. Rebus has become almost completely unlikable. The episode with the cat was creepy/sociopathic and really made me wonder why I was still reading because it wasn't for the mystery. I couldn't care less about corruption in the dispersal of tax revenue from the Scottish govt. There were multiple pages about who oversaw what section and who reported to who. By the end Rebus is going through the motions for no real reason, though we are supposed to think he now serves 'justice.' This is the seventh that I've read and I own one more, so I'll make it to eight but unless the main character undergoes a personality shift and the story line is one I can care about...that will be the last.
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