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A review by shinychick
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
3.0
I was recommended this by [a:Maggie Stiefvater|1330292|Maggie Stiefvater|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1268241579p2/1330292.jpg]. (No, not personally, but on her blog.) I decided to give it a shot, and I was kind of really happy to see that MacLeod Andrews, who was fantastic on [b:The Spectacular Now|3798703|The Spectacular Now|Tim Tharp|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320493552s/3798703.jpg|3842894], also was the reader here.
And yeah, she was right - just when you thought you could imagine the worst possible thing that could have happened to Mike as a little boy, you are BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER with how much worse you could not imagine.
That said, I really enjoyed the 2000 storyline, with Mike as the established boxman (safecracker) working with the White Crew. The 1999 storyline interested me less, but I stuck with it, and did end up enjoying it.
The best part, overall, though, was the feeling that I could take this book to the places Hamilton mentioned and find them. That's something I really appreciate about definite-location books: the feeling of reality.
And yeah, she was right - just when you thought you could imagine the worst possible thing that could have happened to Mike as a little boy, you are BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER with how much worse you could not imagine.
That said, I really enjoyed the 2000 storyline, with Mike as the established boxman (safecracker) working with the White Crew. The 1999 storyline interested me less, but I stuck with it, and did end up enjoying it.
The best part, overall, though, was the feeling that I could take this book to the places Hamilton mentioned and find them. That's something I really appreciate about definite-location books: the feeling of reality.