A review by _lilbey_
Silencing Eve: An Eve Duncan Novel by Iris Johansen

3.0

This book goes back to three stars, mostly because Kendra did not hang around. But no fear, yet ANOTHER character was introduced who did little to forward the plot. Apparently both Kendra and Catherine have their own series of books, so their role was to provide advertising for these other series. Because I really fail to see what Catherine's role was. She was not well developed.

Speaking of not well developed- Stang was in all three of these books, and we finally get some background on him, but he is just... around, serving little purpose when he could have been utilized better. Perhaps instead of these other characters who were just added for... I'm gonna again have to go with deus ex machina.

And this book really went off the rails with the plot.

Spoiler

The addition of the nukes seemed unnecessary... unless you needed to force a side story to get a trilogy, I suppose. And all of a sudden Kevin has more associates in the background who were never mentioned or utilized before, even when Doane was having massive struggles completing all of his plans? UGH.

Every issue in this book was solved not through the hard work and ingenuity of the characters, but through magical associations with ghosts and animals. Sure, the people did follow up work, but they would have figured NOTHING out if the magical components didn't exist. And that was just super irritating.

But again... very little Kendra, so rounded to three stars.