betty reviewed Thin air by Rachel Caine (Roc fantasy)
Review of 'Thin air' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
It's not much of a spoiler to say what the back-cover gives away: this book uses the old 'amnesiac protagonist' device to put some uncertainty back into the story, which by book six is a welcome. I'm generally a sucker for the amnesiac protagonist, but I think that's because I like discovering the protagonist as the protagonist discovers themselves; in this one, Joanne doesn't know anything about herself, and I, the reader, did, which made Joanne seem kind of slow and annoying, especially when I was forced to take a detour through 'people who you have learnt to distrust the hard way.'
The big bad at the end seemed to come out of nowhere, and this book didn't quite hang together for me, but it wasn't a trial to read.
