This is a fast little read, only 230 pages in the paperback edition. It has a lot of similarities with his Edwin Drood series: loners trying to escape their past, names that instill fear on the heart of all who hear them, odd little places that the characters stop by for no reason that really propels the story along but just provides some humor, the world is full of every kind of nasty including aliens, unreliable backstabbing frenemies, and so forth. It's a decent enough setup for the series but the emotion sparks way too fast and big and people make snap decisions too quickly so I found a lot of the book unbelievable. As with his other books, I feel like I'm reading a superhero graphic novel without the pictures.
