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A review by ingo_lembcke
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
5.0
Is this YA? well, no, more A!
A thriller, no sex, no romance, no love-triangle, no SF, no Fantasy - just hard, gritty, Washington D.C. Reality.
A few deaths.
(The story is) Mostly the search for the Spindoctor / Puppetmaster, be it male or female, pulling the strings behind the scene.
The muddy bog of the high stakes of a political intrigue-poker-game. The characters are very well drawn, with flaws and making mistakes, sometimes dangerous ones. It feels like they are slowly drowning in quicksand, just at the last second getting thrown a compromise of a life-line - but one that will cost them (probably in the next book?).
Great Thriller with a touch of YA growing up, but mostly not really YA, more a sixteen year old trying to find out what happened and to cope with the fallout or change it for the better, without really considering long-term repercussions.
A short thriller, could have read this in one day, but wanted it to last, so I took a few breaks.
Highly recommended page-turner.
Additional info (no spoilers):
Jennifer Lynn Barnes on Family and belonging, very insightful
A thriller, no sex, no romance, no love-triangle, no SF, no Fantasy - just hard, gritty, Washington D.C. Reality.
A few deaths.
(The story is) Mostly the search for the Spindoctor / Puppetmaster, be it male or female, pulling the strings behind the scene.
The muddy bog of the high stakes of a political intrigue-poker-game. The characters are very well drawn, with flaws and making mistakes, sometimes dangerous ones. It feels like they are slowly drowning in quicksand, just at the last second getting thrown a compromise of a life-line - but one that will cost them (probably in the next book?).
Great Thriller with a touch of YA growing up, but mostly not really YA, more a sixteen year old trying to find out what happened and to cope with the fallout or change it for the better, without really considering long-term repercussions.
A short thriller, could have read this in one day, but wanted it to last, so I took a few breaks.
Highly recommended page-turner.
Additional info (no spoilers):
Jennifer Lynn Barnes on Family and belonging, very insightful