#Obsidian blue serial#

With the ending I think we end up seeing a fourth book in this series.

We have Jack moving into a new direction which honestly makes sense for him and for a lot of journalists these days. The ending leaves you with more questions than answers though. There's way too many caveats and I am always surprised that the same people who want to yell about their freedom don't care they are giving up a lot of information to a random DNA site. I have to say that I have never done one of those DNA tests things and have zero plans to do so. The murder mystery and how it ties into DNA and privacy though I thought was cleverly done. He also messes so many things up that you are kind of exhausted by him. We do get into the rights of the media in this one which I do think is important now more than ever, but Jack once again kind of sucks so you want him to just be quiet after a while. He stays selfish and doesn't trust anyone and constantly bleats about his story, his scoop, and wanting to ride along with the FBI or police. I think that Rachel and other characters really drove this story for me. Connelly moves the story back and forth between Jack, two men, and the murderer. Jack also reaches out to his former lover, Rachel Walling in order to put together a profile of the killer. When Jack starts to identify more victims, he is put on the radar of three men. When Jack is interviewed by the police due to his connection to a murder victim though, he starts to investigate the dead woman and finds a surprising connection between her getting her DNA tested to then being murdered. It doesn't sound too exciting and you wonder if Jack misses the big stories that he used to chase down.

Jack is now working at a site called 'Fair Warning' that deals with consumer warnings. When you read what happens you are going to go yep he messed things up. We don't get the details, initially, but just go with your gut that Jack messed things up. So between that Bosch book and now, Jack and Rachel are once again done. She mentions at the time that she was with Jack though as an aside to Harry. Rachel was in a Harry Bosch book, a few years back, and I can't remember what book it was. Readers know that he and Rachel Walling had plans to open their own agency after she finishes up with the FBI. 'Fair Warning' finds Jack McEvoy 10 years later after the events in the second book.

#Obsidian blue serial#

Also if you are a serial killer one wonders why anyone even goes near McEvoy. Also it's kind of annoying that Jack will get some success and then we find him 10 years later down in his fortunes (again) due to mess he did (again). But I was tempted to give it 3 stars because Jack is beyond annoying at this point with his constant need to be a jerk and awful to Rachel. I honestly dithered about 3 or 4 stars, but ultimately gave it 4 stars because I thought this one had a lot of interesting sub-plots that I was glad to see Connelly tackle (privacy and DNA). Or as I started to call him, his own worst enemy. Interesting third book looking at the character of Jack McEvoy. Trying to add tags and all of that took me a really long time too. This took me almost an hour to be able to post something.