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The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer
3.0
That was something.
Daniel swears off his criminal ways for good and quietly does his time behind bars. He thinks about his life and starts to see where things went wrong. He becomes a better man who realizes he must pay his debt to society.
The book follow his heart-breaking transformation into a law-abiding citizen.
In a parallel world that is.
Because in our world Craig Schaefer has different plans for Daniel. As a cruel man he torments Daniel without mercy.
The Killing Floor Blues picks up where the last book left off. Faust wakes up to find himself in a maximum security prison for a murder he did not commit. He doesn't remember the trial. Some powerful magic was involved.
Inside the prison, things aren’t merry and joyful – prison politics and tension between races are pretty tense. Guards are sadistic psychos who won’t hesitate to kill prisoner for fun. Some weird stuff is happening in Hive B - prisoners are disappearing.
Faust uses his wits and magic to save his neck and bust out of prison. While the book was pretty good and easy to read it didn’t charm me as much as previous entries.
Plotting wasn’t bad but felt a bit weaker than in previous books. Some twists and parts of the story were strong and creative. Others felt a bit forced. Plot is balanced between the human threat of the prison and the magical threat of the mysterious Guy with a Cheshire Smile. Everything is resolved reasonably well. I would, however, like to know why Warden Lancaster does what he does . Bad guys motivations were very shallow and they mostly fell flat.
In short, good fun, perfectly readable and enjoyable. To me, though, weaker that previous three books.
Daniel swears off his criminal ways for good and quietly does his time behind bars. He thinks about his life and starts to see where things went wrong. He becomes a better man who realizes he must pay his debt to society.
The book follow his heart-breaking transformation into a law-abiding citizen.
In a parallel world that is.
Because in our world Craig Schaefer has different plans for Daniel. As a cruel man he torments Daniel without mercy.
The Killing Floor Blues picks up where the last book left off. Faust wakes up to find himself in a maximum security prison for a murder he did not commit. He doesn't remember the trial. Some powerful magic was involved.
Inside the prison, things aren’t merry and joyful – prison politics and tension between races are pretty tense. Guards are sadistic psychos who won’t hesitate to kill prisoner for fun. Some weird stuff is happening in Hive B - prisoners are disappearing.
Faust uses his wits and magic to save his neck and bust out of prison. While the book was pretty good and easy to read it didn’t charm me as much as previous entries.
Plotting wasn’t bad but felt a bit weaker than in previous books. Some twists and parts of the story were strong and creative. Others felt a bit forced. Plot is balanced between the human threat of the prison and the magical threat of the mysterious Guy with a Cheshire Smile. Everything is resolved reasonably well. I would, however, like to know why Warden Lancaster does what he does . Bad guys motivations were very shallow and they mostly fell flat.
In short, good fun, perfectly readable and enjoyable. To me, though, weaker that previous three books.