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The Company of Demons by Michael Jordan
Publication: 01/16/2018
This was a solid book for me. It was very problematic, I think there could have been some additional editing made, but the overall story itself was very entertaining.
John Coleman is a lawyer that doesn’t make the best personal decisions. At a very young age he watched his father slowly fall down the rabbit hole of depression and alcoholism while chasing the infamous Torso Murderer. A serial killer that left him a haunting message that he would be watched for the rest of his life. Decades later the killings start up again starting with the local bar fly that Coleman sits with multiple times a week. The victim’s daughter hires him to help settle the estate and he is pulled into dealing with a drug cartel and two serial killers competing for his attention.
Coleman is an extremely flawed character. So flawed that you can’t even like him or even begin to try to root for him to overcome. He is, in a simple word with no disrespect to my two lovely girls, a pig. He has a beautiful wife and daughter at home and tries to hit on every girl he comes into contact with, but you know, his dad was an alcoholic that killed himself and he enjoys the odd pint here and there so his behavior is totally excusable… Even when he hits a big AHA moment and you think that maybe he will have some character growth, the very next page he is back to his piggish ways. Guess what, all the females in his life forgive him…really…
Outside of Coleman there was a lot of racial slurs and innuendos that I don’t think added anything to the book. I understand it was supposed to be around the time that wasn’t as PC as it is now but seriously, he lets his thirteen year old daughter casually repeat the N word without so much as batting an eye. I think in the editing process this should have been reviewed with a more critical eye, like I said before it adds absolutely nothing to the overall story. Even the emphasis on the lawyer being a black woman was so overdone. Did it matter that she was black? No, just give your character description and move on.
Overall though, it was an entertaining read!
The Company of Demons by Michael Jordan
Publication: 01/16/2018
This was a solid book for me. It was very problematic, I think there could have been some additional editing made, but the overall story itself was very entertaining.
John Coleman is a lawyer that doesn’t make the best personal decisions. At a very young age he watched his father slowly fall down the rabbit hole of depression and alcoholism while chasing the infamous Torso Murderer. A serial killer that left him a haunting message that he would be watched for the rest of his life. Decades later the killings start up again starting with the local bar fly that Coleman sits with multiple times a week. The victim’s daughter hires him to help settle the estate and he is pulled into dealing with a drug cartel and two serial killers competing for his attention.
Coleman is an extremely flawed character. So flawed that you can’t even like him or even begin to try to root for him to overcome. He is, in a simple word with no disrespect to my two lovely girls, a pig. He has a beautiful wife and daughter at home and tries to hit on every girl he comes into contact with, but you know, his dad was an alcoholic that killed himself and he enjoys the odd pint here and there so his behavior is totally excusable… Even when he hits a big AHA moment and you think that maybe he will have some character growth, the very next page he is back to his piggish ways. Guess what, all the females in his life forgive him…really…
Outside of Coleman there was a lot of racial slurs and innuendos that I don’t think added anything to the book. I understand it was supposed to be around the time that wasn’t as PC as it is now but seriously, he lets his thirteen year old daughter casually repeat the N word without so much as batting an eye. I think in the editing process this should have been reviewed with a more critical eye, like I said before it adds absolutely nothing to the overall story. Even the emphasis on the lawyer being a black woman was so overdone. Did it matter that she was black? No, just give your character description and move on.
Overall though, it was an entertaining read!