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A review by qu33nofbookz
Blood Echo by Christopher Rice
3.0
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the second book in the Burning Girl series. I enjoyed the first book and this one is good but not quite as good as the first. I would still recommend this book to fans of crime fiction.
Charlotte aka Charley has worked out a deal with Cole and his secret group of global CEO's who dabble in experimentation on people to make them/society better. They will find bad people aka serial killers for her to take down using her superhuman strength and she can go on living her life in the small town of Altamira, California with her new boyfriend Luke. While she may have agreed to the deal she is still leery of Cole. Her hunch is proven true when he brings trouble and danger literally to her doorstep. She has to fight with herself on doing what she wants and doing what is best for those around her and not becoming something others want or can exploit.
Mr. Rice does a good job of keeping the characters interesting and giving us hints to their backstories and what made them who they were and at the same time keeping them slowly evolving and growing. He does a fair job with the main female character which most men have a hard time writing well.
The conspiracy of Cole's company is written believably and makes me want to know more. While the players are all psychopaths they get on well enough that you don't hate them but still want to know about them and what they are up to.
Charley's internal struggle is quite obvious but well done and you can agonize with her on what she should and could do and what that means for her future, the future of those she loves and the morality impact it could have on those close and society as a whole, though mostly on those she loves and on herself. We can understand her way of thinking and theories of what could be.
The two plots in this book work well in they don't get in the way of each other and you can go from one to the other without trouble. Both plots are also believable and applicable to the real world today. While the solutions are obviously fiction there are hints of things that could be done in reality as well. The violence is present but not overwhelming which is a nice change from authors who just want to disgust you with as much gore as possible. You get the image of how terrible the crimes are without wanting to skim or skip.
I look forward to the next book in the series.
This is the second book in the Burning Girl series. I enjoyed the first book and this one is good but not quite as good as the first. I would still recommend this book to fans of crime fiction.
Charlotte aka Charley has worked out a deal with Cole and his secret group of global CEO's who dabble in experimentation on people to make them/society better. They will find bad people aka serial killers for her to take down using her superhuman strength and she can go on living her life in the small town of Altamira, California with her new boyfriend Luke. While she may have agreed to the deal she is still leery of Cole. Her hunch is proven true when he brings trouble and danger literally to her doorstep. She has to fight with herself on doing what she wants and doing what is best for those around her and not becoming something others want or can exploit.
Mr. Rice does a good job of keeping the characters interesting and giving us hints to their backstories and what made them who they were and at the same time keeping them slowly evolving and growing. He does a fair job with the main female character which most men have a hard time writing well.
The conspiracy of Cole's company is written believably and makes me want to know more. While the players are all psychopaths they get on well enough that you don't hate them but still want to know about them and what they are up to.
Charley's internal struggle is quite obvious but well done and you can agonize with her on what she should and could do and what that means for her future, the future of those she loves and the morality impact it could have on those close and society as a whole, though mostly on those she loves and on herself. We can understand her way of thinking and theories of what could be.
The two plots in this book work well in they don't get in the way of each other and you can go from one to the other without trouble. Both plots are also believable and applicable to the real world today. While the solutions are obviously fiction there are hints of things that could be done in reality as well. The violence is present but not overwhelming which is a nice change from authors who just want to disgust you with as much gore as possible. You get the image of how terrible the crimes are without wanting to skim or skip.
I look forward to the next book in the series.