Upstream Reviews - Raven

From the Review by Declan Finn:

Janeski still has a masterful work here. Despite the tone of this being more of a police procedural, this is anything but by the book. There’s a fresh plot twist approximately every hundred pages. And compared to the last book, it’s only 400 pages, instead of 800. There’s less world-building, because she’s not creating five cultures on multiple planets, while tangling with three adversaries at the same time. (That’s if you don’t count two Internal Affairs Agencies coming after them both, the mafia getting involved, the terrorist random encounters, the main psychopaths and the mole in the agency as a six-sided chess game.)

Funny enough, via Veronique, Janeski manages to carry an amazing amount of the book on microexpressions — the only other person I’ve ever seen do that is Timothy Zahn.

The only weak part is the mystery … but that’s only if you have a good recall on the end of Phoenix, and I read that book twice, so I cheated. I knew who had to be behind it from page one.

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