I was offered a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review; unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy and am only halfway through, but here are my thoughts so far.
It’s a great book. It’s tightly written, full of believable and three-dimensional characters, and the worldbuilding is excellent.
I was gripped from the first page, immediately immersed in a city of stark light and deep shadow, dodgy dealings, smoke, and cyber-stacked sin. Price makes the solid decision, with which I will almost always agree, to insert the technology and jargon without explanation – though that may be partly due to this being the second instalment in the series; these things are normal to these people, and readers will pick up the meanings from context along the way. The dystopian aspects are almost painfully believable.
It’s a shame I missed the first in the series, as I’d love to know how we got to this point, so I’m going to stop reading this one, find and read the first, then restart this one with a better understanding and an even fuller appreciation (if possible) of the rich setting.
Cool cover, too.
Based on what I’ve read so far, I highly recommend this series.
4.5*
Cover blurb:
“On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma. Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city’s more unscrupulous business moguls and she needs someone to handle the ones and zeroes. When Warsaw crosses paths with an increasingly desperate Resler, she hands the former radical an he can either succumb to death by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts or take a chance with her. Of course, there’s no guarantee he’ll survive that, either…”
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