A review by paulataua
Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

2.0

I loved his ‘The Life We Bury’ and ‘The Shadows We Hide’, and was really looking forward to reading this book. I was disappointed. I loved the sentiment, but sentiment by itself is never enough. The plot was predictable, the suspense moments didn’t work, and the characters never came up off the page. They were just characters in a book, characters in a made up story, however much that story might have mirrored some reality. I liked the main character’s growing realization of implicit racism in the self and society, that hidden racism that we need to recognize, but that is about all I liked. I made it to the end but not without a great deal of effort.