A review by virtuallori
Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann

4.0

I really enjoyed this book and the first one in the series, Rock Paper Tiger. 4.5 for each of them. They're thrillers set in China revolving around the misadventures of an American Iraq War vet trying to put her life back together. Yes, you have to suspend some disbelief re: coincidences, characters with nine lives, and all that, but that's par for the genre. The descriptions of the country and day-to-day life there really captured my imagination; because I am only vaguely familiar with China from reading about it in some of the books I work on, I kept finding myself consulting Google Maps and reading a bit about the places she talks about to get a real feel for it. I'm looking forward to picking up her next book.