Killing Season by L.T. VargusMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Usually I pen a review fairly quickly after reading. I read quite a bit, and I immerse myself in the pages, so when I finish, I want to capture the essence of the experience before moving on. With that said, I hesitated on this one. At first I wasn’t sure quite why, but I think I’ve nailed it down. The plot here is absolutely fast paced and kept me turning the pages well into the night as I counted down to the explosive finish. The characters were well rounded enough to be relatable and the events timely. What kept me from being mad about it, however, was the writing itself. It was somehow flat and “base”, lacking any prosaic value beyond moving the plot forward. There was no introspection or grand language to make the characters “sing”. As a quick beach read, it worked, but as a reader with a desire to bask in the thinking made possible by inference and implication, I just wasn’t moved.
I allowed four stars for the pacing and suspense, but the reader should know going in that this book in the Darger series won’t add anything to what you already know and instead careens through the act of tracking down domestic terrorists with dispassion.
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