Matt Goncalves's Reviews > Chop Shop

This was a bargin bin discovery where the name and the pitch from the synopsis had me curious. But after the first few chapters, the writing became sloppy, and the story was predictable as the stakes were established. The dialogue of the characters was decent, but it became more about ideas being argued than people talking, and the characters were one dimensional, except for the protagonist who was conflicted in all the wrong ways. One minute, he was a genius forensic entemologist, then he was socially stunted, then he was a hopeless romantic and then some cool hero who wasn't phased by imminent danger. He was too inconsistent and didn't seem to serve the plot too much other than being annoying and risk-taking but only to be motivated by curiousity and then a forced romance with his female companion.

By the halfway mark, I wasn't heavily invested, and the climax was not as compelling as it was trying to be. Somehow, there is a series of this character, and this is the second installment
I doubt I will bother with the rest. I bought this book for fifty cents, so I go what I paid for; a mediocre story.