2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good read, but plot didnt move., November 21, 2009
This review is from: Redemption Alley (Jill Kismet, Hunter, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)
Not a lot of plot or character development, but still a good read and interesting story.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Jill Kismet and Redemption Alley, September 3, 2009
This review is from: Redemption Alley (Jill Kismet, Hunter, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)
The plot in the third Jill Kismet saga twists like a rattlesnake and bites like one: fast, hard and deadly. Jill is up to her ears in Traders, Hellbreed, scurf, crooked corps, crooked politicians, lies, misdirection, and a particularly gruesome form of biological warfare, all tied together to bring something very, very nasty into the nightside. Cops have always been the Hunters' allies, they back each other up, but this time Jill doesn't know who to trust, and who is out gunning for her.
There is as much blood and gore as in the first two books, and Jill is the target for more than usual. At times I couldn't understand how she kept going. This is a good story, a great, convoluted plot and the inwardly conflicted Kismet character continues to evolve. Maybe I'm wrong, but I felt that Jill was almost sorry for a couple of Traders, even though she killed one of them in the end.
The only thing to give me pause in Redemption Alley was the actual prose. Ms. Saintcrow's writing style has always been all over the place, in some parts conventional punctuation; in others, punctuation seems to be used only to indicate a pause in thought, speech or activity; in others, run on sentences lack any punctuation. I'm not a fanatic where punctuation and sentence structure is concerned, so that does not normally bother me. But when I have to go back and reread sentences and paragraphs, well, that does bother me.
"Jacinta Kutchner's corpse hung from a white and blue striped nylon rope looped over an exposed beam creaking slightly as the house settled for the night."
What was creaking? Kutchner's corpse? The beam? The rope?
But on the whole, I enjoyed Redemption Alley and look forward to reading number four: Flesh Circus.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Kismet Yet, August 10, 2009
This review is from: Redemption Alley (Jill Kismet, Hunter, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is definitely the best book in the Jill Kismet series so far and has Lilith and Jill hitting their prime with an action packed, plot twists laden, science fiction fantasy. If you are in to the Nightside and love action novels this is your book. We learn more about the entanglement of Perry (Pericles) and Jill, scarf infestations and who is behind the organ trade touched on in earlier books.
This is definitely a book I couldn't put down with little downtime in story. I highly recommend this novel.
Mark
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