Customer Reviews

Keeper/Finder (Atticus Kodiak Novels)

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I grew an appreciation for Greg Rucka's writing from his work in Gotham Central, Checkmate, Batman and Wonder Woman. He also did a good job of writing a story for Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow. And I've heard nothing but praise for his work in Queen and Country. So I thought I should pick up this surprisingly hard to find two-pack as my next book.
Keeper is fairly straight forward and unfortunately not very gripping. I'd give it 2 stars. Finder I give 4, since Rucka really gets his footing with the action, suspense and characters. Now that his character is established, I think the Atticus Kodiak books will only get better.

Third book I have read by Rucka and all of them move quickly and and are all well written. Holds interest well.

No, I don't actually own this book. I do own the whole Atticus Kodiak series, the paperbacks. I love them. What I like about Atticus is that he's not an infallible superhero, but just a good bodyguard trying to do his best. And sometimes things don't work out exactly the way he wants. It's all in the game.
What I don't like is that I haven't seen a new Atticus Kodiak novel for a while. When a new one does arrive, given time, I like to reread the previous books in the series, so i'm totally into it again. Yeah, I really like them...

These books are about a bodyguard. His job is to take care of people until he can find out exactly who is threatening them. The rest is genre-typical mystery-thriller action, with some Clancyesque notions floating around in the description of weapons and tactics. The real problem I have with this book is that the main characters behave like morons as they contort their lives to do what is convenient for Rucka's overflavored, abundantly dramatic plotlines. There is no way to identify with people who behave as if they are not living their own lives, or lack the wisdom to note they are alive and bear the consequences of their action, especially when the author injects saccharine moralization to make us "feel" the "meaning." No, thank you.