Current
TBR List: 16
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Books Finished in January: 7
Currently Reading: 8
Books Finished in January: 7
A free
physical book from Bookish First in exchange for an honest review.
The
Company of Demons by Michael Jordan
Publication: 01/16/2018
Publication: 01/16/2018
This
was a solid book for me. It was very problematic, I think there could have been
some additional editing made, but the overall story itself was very
entertaining.
John
Coleman is a lawyer that doesn’t make the best personal decisions. At a very
young age he watched his father slowly fall down the rabbit hole of depression and
alcoholism while chasing the infamous Torso Murderer. A serial killer that left
him a haunting message that he would be watched for the rest of his life.
Decades later the killings start up again starting with the local bar fly that
Coleman sits with multiple times a week. The victim’s daughter hires him to
help settle the estate and he is pulled into dealing with a drug cartel and two
serial killers competing for his attention.
Coleman
is an extremely flawed character. So flawed that you can’t even like him or
even begin to try to root for him to overcome. He is, in a simple word with no
disrespect to my two lovely girls, a pig. He has a beautiful wife and daughter
at home and tries to hit on every girl he comes into contact with, but you
know, his dad was an alcoholic that killed himself and he enjoys the odd pint
here and there so his behavior is totally excusable… Even when he hits a big
AHA moment and you think that maybe he will have some character growth, the
very next page he is back to his piggish ways. Guess what, all the females in
his life forgive him…really…
Outside
of Coleman there was a lot of racial slurs and innuendos that I don’t think
added anything to the book. I understand it was supposed to be around the time
that wasn’t as PC as it is now but seriously, he lets his thirteen year old
daughter casually repeat the N word without so much as batting an eye. I think
in the editing process this should have been reviewed with a more critical eye,
like I said before it adds absolutely nothing to the overall story. Even the
emphasis on the lawyer being a black woman was so overdone. Did it matter that
she was black? No, just give your character description and move on.
Overall
though, it was an entertaining read!
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