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A review by lindca
Riot Act by Zoë Sharp
4.0
I'm well and truly hooked on this series.
In this story, Charlie gets embroiled in local violent events while housesitting for a friend, also meeting up again with someone significant from her past. While she once again proves to be a magnet for trouble, we learn more about her past and her relationships with her parents and others. She's a tough yet vulnerable protagonist, one who's easy to like and root for.
A few things bugged me but didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the story.
a. How could he not have known about the rape aspect of Charlie's military and civil trials? Even McMillan, the policeman who didn't immediately know Charlie's background and real name, knew the details. The civil trial supposedly was covered by the media, leading Charlie to change her last name. Yet Sean, who knew her by her real name, never saw nor heard of this, even when he supposedly looked for her afterward. He owns an ostensibly successful security/bodyguard company, employing an expert in computer investigation (his faux girlfriend) yet never tried to find the details from the courtmartial he was forced to miss? Not believable.
b. If Sean owns this successful bodyguard company, complete with nice company cars, why in the world does he leave his family to live in a derelict and dangerous neighborhood, especially when both his younger sister and brother have been getting into trouble? This also makes no sense.
All in all, though, I quickly have become a fan of this series and look forward to reading the next book.
In this story, Charlie gets embroiled in local violent events while housesitting for a friend, also meeting up again with someone significant from her past. While she once again proves to be a magnet for trouble, we learn more about her past and her relationships with her parents and others. She's a tough yet vulnerable protagonist, one who's easy to like and root for.
A few things bugged me but didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the story.
Spoiler
Charlie has a tendency to trust or believe the wrong people, even when those people seem to have huge flashing "DO NOT TRUST ME" signs hanging on their necks. That was the case with both Marc and Dave in the first book and with O'Bryan in this one. A couple things also seemed very odd about Sean:a. How could he not have known about the rape aspect of Charlie's military and civil trials? Even McMillan, the policeman who didn't immediately know Charlie's background and real name, knew the details. The civil trial supposedly was covered by the media, leading Charlie to change her last name. Yet Sean, who knew her by her real name, never saw nor heard of this, even when he supposedly looked for her afterward. He owns an ostensibly successful security/bodyguard company, employing an expert in computer investigation (his faux girlfriend) yet never tried to find the details from the courtmartial he was forced to miss? Not believable.
b. If Sean owns this successful bodyguard company, complete with nice company cars, why in the world does he leave his family to live in a derelict and dangerous neighborhood, especially when both his younger sister and brother have been getting into trouble? This also makes no sense.
All in all, though, I quickly have become a fan of this series and look forward to reading the next book.