I love Butler. In my mind, she adopted me and we pull a grey gardens….but this book was so left field….so out of pocket..I had to be reassured that it would make sense in the grand scheme. This book feels like a prequel to another series entirely. I was about to compare it to Rogue One but I can’t because at least that movie was still in the Star Wars universe and was remotely connected to one of the other movies.

Even if you read it objectively and without the knowledge that it’s a part of the Patternist series…it’s still just okay…