Consequences Review
Mar. 5th, 2021 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI'm still making my way steadily through the Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - Consequences is number three and follows what happens when Flint retrieves a Disappeared woman who has apparently been pardoned. The titular consequences are not good for her or her family, nor it seems for Flint, at least for a while, since the murders DeRicci is tasked with solving make it look like he is the culprit.
It's kind of a weird story in plot terms, since we don't really see Flint doing his retrieval work (this seems to be common across all the books so far, despite the name of the series), and the it also pits Flint and DeRicci against each other, which I wasn't all that keen on.
The fragmented narratives were even more confusing than in book two, with seemingly unrelated events going on in several parts of the moon city, and only really coming together right at the end. That ending felt very rushed, with most of the main plot points being revealed in the last thirty pages, but quite a lot of stuff left unresolved, which isn't always a bad thing.
There also wasn't really a reconciliation for Flint and DeRicci, at least not on the page.
All that aside, though, the pace was high, the intrigue kept me reading, and I still very much like Flint and DeRicci as characters. It's a shame they don't really get to work together any more, but I still really enjoyed the book overall and have ordered the next four in the series, so I've got plenty left to get through.
It's kind of a weird story in plot terms, since we don't really see Flint doing his retrieval work (this seems to be common across all the books so far, despite the name of the series), and the it also pits Flint and DeRicci against each other, which I wasn't all that keen on.
The fragmented narratives were even more confusing than in book two, with seemingly unrelated events going on in several parts of the moon city, and only really coming together right at the end. That ending felt very rushed, with most of the main plot points being revealed in the last thirty pages, but quite a lot of stuff left unresolved, which isn't always a bad thing.
There also wasn't really a reconciliation for Flint and DeRicci, at least not on the page.
All that aside, though, the pace was high, the intrigue kept me reading, and I still very much like Flint and DeRicci as characters. It's a shame they don't really get to work together any more, but I still really enjoyed the book overall and have ordered the next four in the series, so I've got plenty left to get through.
