About family and political feuds in Breathitt Co. Ky

around the turn of the 19th century. My G.Grandfather was

a town marshall there and was shot and killed while on duty

in 1898.

This is the third book in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro detective series and the best so far, in my opinion.  Published in 1997, it has a notable minor villain in the first half by the name of John Byrne.

***

I'm not very far into it but my reaction has been mixed.  On the plus side it's an intriguing premise.  I can't confirm the legitimacy of the science, but so far nothing has set off an alarm of implausibility.  On the downside, I'm finding the 'voice' of the protagonist to be mildly annoying; he speaks like a twenty-something frat boy rather than a scientist and astronaut.

****

I'm one of those people who usually has multiple books on the go but it's a habit I'm trying to break.  I tend to be reading a couple at a time, usually in completely different genres - at the moment it's Silence of the Lambs and The Bible: A Biography - but I usually wind up with three or four because my mood changes, or I need a book for the train and whatever I'm reading isn't something I'm happy to stuff into a bag so I pick something else, or I happen across something in a second-hand book store and start it immediately and let whatever I'm in the middle of sit for a while.

I guess it's just good to have choices that reflect my mood at the time.  Usually I can just switch back into those different modes.  The downside is that occasionally I'll come back to a book having got distracted by something else and I've forgotten what happened.

When I recorded the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones my DVR managed to miss out literally half the episodes (which made for a challenging but not unenjoyable viewing experience). Consequently there is so much in the book that comes as a welcome filling-in of gaps.

This book is terrible.  While reading it, I find my body getting physically tense.  Not because the story is so exciting -- it's really very dry so far -- but because it's so annoying.  If my eyes roll any more, I think they'll end up on the floor.

There's no plot, just a lot of dull scientific nattering.  Even that I could get past if the only character wasn't so damned irritating.  He's like a second rate, late night talk show host.  He keeps saying dumb things like "Booyah!" and "Yay, Oxygenator!"  I feel like I'm stuck on Mars with Jimmy Fallon.

Highly recommend this series. Remender writes some awesome Sci/Fi. His Black Science series is really good too. Looking forward to vol 2 when it comes out next month which wraps up the series. Dark Horse did a nice job on these HC Library editions.