murph2244 's review for:

City on Fire by Don Winslow

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a fun mafia story reminiscent of the Godfather or Goodfellas or any classic mafia movie, but also with some interesting parallels to The Iliad as the inside flap hinted at. There wasn’t a whole lot of new stuff with a genre like this, but the questions of morality and seeing the behind of the scenes of what would or wouldn’t provoke a war and generational divides over how to keep the peace was interesting.