A review by owoityra
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

5.0

I'm not really sure how to...describe why I gave this book five stars. I felt very...hmmm....like...eh...alright. This was my first time ever reading crime fiction, and I think that if I had started with anything else, I would have gotten off on the wrong foot. The Lock Artist is very clearly crime, and there are many scenes where that shines through. But I felt like, while I was reading it, it was the story beneath all of the crime that really shone through. The Lock Artist has a truly amazing story beneath all of the amazing action scenes. The Lock Artist was really a love story in some ways, to me. There was so much more that impressed me with this book, too. The author does an amazing job with the writing. You can pick up the book and in two seconds you feel like you're in Mike's world, caught up in all of his crazy mishaps. The characters are strong throughout, and each one, even if you find them dead a few pages after they're introduced, has a clear, well-thoughtout personality and an important role to the story. Especially the main character and the voice of the novel, Mike.

I'm begin to ramble here, and there's tons more I could say, but I have to go off to school. I definitely think that anyone - both boys and girls - should check out the description of the book on Goodreads and see if they want to give it a show. It is technically an adult book, and there are some tiny scenes with gore and lots of bad language, but if you can handle that it isn't that bad.