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Fearful Symmetries | Rating | |
| A | |||
| S. Andrew Swann | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| The Moreau Series | Forests of the Night, Emperors of Twilight, Specters of the Dawn, Fearful Symmetries, Profiteer, Partisian, Revolutionary | ||
It's been over fifteen years since Nohar left Cleveland. A lot has happened since then... and not all of them good. Especially in his personal life. Now Nohar is a hermit, living alone in the Sierra Nevadas and hunting for his meals. But a human manages to track him down, hoping to hire him one last time as a private investigator. Nohar turns him down, but that doesn't stop a hit squad from trying to kill him! Now he needs to discover what the job even was, so he can find out why he's suddenly such a hot target.
I liked Nohar in Forests of the Night, and time - both in the book and in the real world - hasn't blunted that. He is a wonderful character, with a tragic past and feelings readers can believe in and sympathize with. He feels, in short, like a person, and one you'd want on your side. This actually has been emplified in this book over the last, in fact.
It is, of course, something of an action-mystery novel, and it delivers well on both counts. Although I confess certain plot points and facts struck me as obviously important when I read them (that is, when Swann was trying hard to make them not obviously so), he still did a good job of keeping me interested by hiding exactly in what way they are so crucial. And Swann again keeps the story from dying by revealing the answers too early, or too late. The pacing, I feel, is perfect.
I did have two minor nits. Firstly, I wished to know what happened to Nohar since the last book in a bit more detail than the book offered. Slightly more irritating was the rather abrupt ending. The climax was long and involved, and frankly I loved it, but at the end it would have been nice for a little more wrapup.
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