A review by claudetteb
Cast Iron by Peter May

3.0

This series is not nearly as good as the Lewis trilogy. The story is solid, although May doesn't give enough clues throughout to let us guess what's going on, but then, maybe that's just that I didn't read those clues. Two things detracted from the series. First, the hero, Enzo MacLeod, just isn't very likeable. So I honestly didn't care that much about all the stuff that happened to him. As well, the dialect May chose to use made it seem that ALL the characters were speaking in broken english, with lots of french words thrown in. I found it very distracting especially when the person was supposed to be intelligent. The occasional french word is fine, as the book is after all set in France, but everyone shouldn't speak as though they are 5 years old and just learning a new language. Each book is a stand-alone, but the main story spans the whole series, and finishes at the end of Cast Iron.

The personal stories carry on between the books, but seriously, these characters are so lifeless that the personal stuff didn't interest me at all.