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candacesiegle_greedyreader's review against another edition
5.0
I was delighted to receive a review copy of this book from the publisher--delighted, because I didn't know what I was in for. You don't need to read "The Dye is Cast" in order to get a kick out of "Any Means Necessary"--in fact, you might not want to. I was so horrified by Leona in book one that I might actually be afraid to open book two.
Leona is a self-described crooked cop, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. She's also immoral in a spectacular way. She has no moral compass, has a huge gambling problem that has brought her into the circle of terrifying people with even less moral compass that she has, if you can have less than none whatsoever. Her husband has left her, taking the children along. Their son has died, and while Leona is heartbroken, she doesn't let this slow her down. She needs money. Badly. She's creative about how to find it.
This leads to one of the amusing pieces of this novel. As a cop who's arrested a lot of criminals whose stupidity lead to their arrests, she offers ongoing workshops on how to commit a crime and not get caught because you've done something incredibly dumb. The crims she's invited are some of the less idiotic, but the dim-witted things these people have done make you wonder about their fitness for crime or any other career. Leona needs to train them so they can help her commit the one heist that's going to get her out of hock to other thugs and out of Sweden.
I enjoyed "Any Means Necessary" immensely and look forward to the next installment in the Leona Lindberg canon. Provided she survives to have more adventures . . .
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
Leona is a self-described crooked cop, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. She's also immoral in a spectacular way. She has no moral compass, has a huge gambling problem that has brought her into the circle of terrifying people with even less moral compass that she has, if you can have less than none whatsoever. Her husband has left her, taking the children along. Their son has died, and while Leona is heartbroken, she doesn't let this slow her down. She needs money. Badly. She's creative about how to find it.
This leads to one of the amusing pieces of this novel. As a cop who's arrested a lot of criminals whose stupidity lead to their arrests, she offers ongoing workshops on how to commit a crime and not get caught because you've done something incredibly dumb. The crims she's invited are some of the less idiotic, but the dim-witted things these people have done make you wonder about their fitness for crime or any other career. Leona needs to train them so they can help her commit the one heist that's going to get her out of hock to other thugs and out of Sweden.
I enjoyed "Any Means Necessary" immensely and look forward to the next installment in the Leona Lindberg canon. Provided she survives to have more adventures . . .
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
jalfredsson's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
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