I don’t normally read series and there’s really no good reason to have stuck around for all six of Nebraska books except that there were there, there were free, there were only six of them, I enjoy Reynolds writing and I’m a completist. To be honest, it’s mostly because of the latter.
The thing is the series started off pretty strong. The first few books were pithy and fun and then they started to get fatter, slower, and much less fun. To be fair, they stayed pretty entertaining throughout, but the later books never lived up or even came close to the appeal of the first few. It’s plain to see why the series stopped after book six, which is another overwritten and all too serious (although not as much as its predecessor) tale of a famously last-name-only detective getting in over his un-fedoraed noggin into a case he can’t say no to. It’s gangs this time. Gangs, you ask? In Nebraska. Yeah, apparently so. And while there might not be a Gangs of Nebraska coming to the theatre near you anytime soon, it’s enough to have unlicensed private investigator Nebraska dodging bullets as fast as he can. The victim is a nineteen-year-old kid who was just beginning to turn his life around when he was found dead late at night in a gang-ridden neighborhood. From, of course, a drive-by. The employer is Nebraska’s old friend and a former cop named Elmo. Together they navigate the dangerous world of Crips and Blood under a veritable rain of bullets. It’s…well, it’s ok. Nice to see the writer tried to do something with social relevance, but all it does is just make you miss the earlier books, when Nebraska was fun. Anyway, there, I did it. Read them all. Now I never have to set foot in Nebraska. Whew.
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