When you agree to read a book by someone you know, you always run the risk of having to plow through a clunker, all the while struggling to think of what faint praise you can bestow on it to save their feelings. Thankfully, that isn’t the case here. Kelly is a fine stylist and the book ‘reads easy’. The subject matter – it’s an action thriller centered on costumed superheroes – isn’t my cup of tea, but I know this would be a favorite of a lot of people here on my Facebook account.
Complaints? I think it would have been more powerful had it ended a chapter or two earlier, leaving the final confrontation to a sequel, and I thought the romance at the center of the novel was entirely too chaste for entirely too long. Beyond that, it was an impressive debut.
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