The Last Straw by Ed Duncan REVIEW

 The Last Straw

by Ed Duncan

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Synopsis

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own.

After they find out that the crime boss is the father of the black teenage carjacker, Paul Elliott - lawyer and close friend of the witness’s family - begins counseling them.

As the long-simmering feud between Rico and John D'Angelo reaches boiling point, bodies start to pile up in rapid succession... and old scores will be settled.

Review

Thank you to the author and Book Publicity Services for a review copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

The Last Straw is the second book in the Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. While you probably could read this book without the first book, I think you would get more out of it if you read the first book first. Plus the first book is really good and gives a great introduction to the characters.

The characters were pretty good. I like Rico although I find him to be a little soft for someone in his line of work. I enjoyed him as a main character, especially his relationship with Jean. One of the main characters for this book is D'Angelo. I wasn't a fan of him at all, mainly because he was supposed to be a bad ass hitman who failed at literally everything he did. He was written to fail at everything too easily and I think I would have enjoyed the story more if he hadn't of been so easy to beat. I would have loved to of seen him be more of a competition for Rico.

I found The Last Straw to be a bit.. overly wordy. I find scenes to be dragged out a little longer than necessary which can drag the story on. Thankfully the story doesn't get lost and the book is still quite enjoyable.

With that said I still really enjoyed the story. I found myself flying through the pages every time I picked it up. I'm really looking forward to finding out what happens in the third book Rico Stays. I'm hoping to get started on that one very soon.