The Black Coats was perfectly entertaining while I was reading but it didn't hold up to scrutiny once I had some time to think about it a bit more. A lot of the story is very surface level -- there isn't much character development and the core question of justice vs. vengeance gets a very quick, trite answer. The plot requires a heavy suspension of disbelief, which I'm actually okay with, but it would've benefitted from being anchored to something else in the story whether that was a development of Mademoiselle Corday as a setting or more focus on making the members of Team Banner feel like unique people.