Stonebender reviewed Eastwood by Mike Sheridan
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2 stars
To be fair I like this book less for personal reasons. I will give Mr. Sheridan a great deal of credit for including characters you don't see often in after disaster novels. (Or if you do see them, they die pretty quickly.) He added two new characters with disabilities. I happen to be someone with a disability and neither of those characters read very real to me. He makes quite a deal about how the two characters, make a whole. Well in my opinion I'm already whole. I don't need to partner up with another disabled person to be useful. To be fair I do not think that this was Mr. Sheridan's intention, but that's how it felt to me. So, I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the earlier book. I also completely disagree with how torture works and the reliability of information acquired through torture. I also, …
To be fair I like this book less for personal reasons. I will give Mr. Sheridan a great deal of credit for including characters you don't see often in after disaster novels. (Or if you do see them, they die pretty quickly.) He added two new characters with disabilities. I happen to be someone with a disability and neither of those characters read very real to me. He makes quite a deal about how the two characters, make a whole. Well in my opinion I'm already whole. I don't need to partner up with another disabled person to be useful. To be fair I do not think that this was Mr. Sheridan's intention, but that's how it felt to me. So, I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the earlier book. I also completely disagree with how torture works and the reliability of information acquired through torture. I also, don't think that just because a person is supposedly a "good guy" that that means everything they do is somehow for the better. I will probably try the third book in the series, but I'm cautious about the next one.