A review by selinadragonair
Silent City by G.R. Matthews

3.0

The thing I liked most about this book was the underwater setting with submariens, fish-suits, underwater cities and an ex-special forces guy rampaging. The writing was solid and well paced, I found only minor typos. Still, I had two issues with the story: first, after a good opening scene it takes quite a time to get really interesting. For me it was, when Corin finally arrived at the Silent City. The beginning and the introduction of Corin Hayes felt like "by the book": sad, brutal past (check), drowning himself in alcohol and getting into fights (check) and so on. I wished for something more special. The second issue is with Corin Hayes character: although it's written in first person I did not like him (i know, he doesn't want to be liked but still). He's more a brutal one than a clever one and a lot of his self-imposed mystery solving is based on mere assumptions. Luckily he is no detective, he would probably kill half a city on assumptions. In the end a lot of questions weren't answered and I still have the feeling of having no idea what really happend.