So this was the first book I read 100% on my iPhone. Kinda interesting experience... I'm not sure how much of the formatting was changed to suit the delivery mechanism. I'll have to give the book a look to see next time I'm at a book store.
So apparently, this is the third book in a series by Huston. Oops... That explains the numerous references to backstory that seemed oddly brief.
I read it anyway. I needed something to wash the taste of Cormac McCarthy's The Road out of my mind.
Good? Sometimes. It's never bad, but not great either.
It's a work of fiction that is in the crime drama realm that is entertaining, but not astounding. It's all first person, and sometimes there's a little jumping around in time to add an interesting effect to the reader. I can't quite tell if you were supposed to like the main character or not. There are allusions to some things that make it so you're supposed to be able to go either way as the reader.
If there was a problem with the book, it's that I didn't feel terribly invested in it. I didn't really care what happened. There was no character that I rooted for. Most of the way through the book, I didn't feel like I cared in any way how it ended - and the story wasn't good enough to pull me back in.
As far as reading it on the iPhone, I found that to be fine. It didn't hurt my eyes, and it was very easy to leave and come back to any point in the book. I'll really like the iPad if it has the same app (it was recently acquired by Amazon, so we'll see if they do anything to it).
So, I know that's not much of a review. I've downloaded the other two books from this series (they're all available for free download right now on the Stanza iPhone app). I love free, but I wonder if it's a "you get what you pay for" kinda deal. I'm not sure if I'm gonna read them now or if I'm gonna go dig around and do something like re-read the Jack Ryan books or some other good standby that I know I'll like and enjoy.
That's what I want right now in my free time. Not the annoyance of The Road, and not the antipathy of A Dangerous Man. I need something that can engage me in those rare times I have to read a few pages.
