[books 2008] Michael Marshall

[inulro]

20. Blood of Angels by Michael Marshall

Third in the Straw Men trilogy. Some bits of this book bugged me more than the others - chiefly, the exceedingly lame "Paul escapes from custody" premise of the book which I saw coming when they arrested him rather than killed him at the end of the second book. There's also a couple of demonstrably wrong facts of history in the "potted history of the Straw Men and opposition to them" but thankfully that's only mentioned once in passing.

Having said that, it effectively sucked me in and took very little time to get through (it's much longer than the first two volumes), so it was worth the effort.

Comments

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it a lot. Smith bugs me somewhat with every book (all his male characters seem virtually identical -- big, laconic, troubled past, good with a gun -- and most of his females are fairly similar to that stereotype too, only they're slimmer & better-looking), but I still plow through them at great speed.