Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: A Few Good Fish 
SERIES: Fish Out of Water #3
AUTHOR: Amy Lane
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: August 28, 2018
LENGTH: 290 pages
BLURB:
A tomcat, a psychopath, and a psychic walk into the desert to rescue the men they love…. Can everybody make it out with their skin intact?
PI Jackson Rivers and Defense Attorney Ellery Cramer have barely recovered from last November, when stopping a serial killer nearly destroyed Jackson in both body and spirit.
But their previous investigation poked a new danger with a stick, forcing Jackson and Ellery to leave town so they can meet the snake in its den.
Jackson Rivers grew up with the mean streets as a classroom and he learned a long time ago not to give a damn about his own life. But he gets a whole new education when the enemy takes Ellery. The man who pulled his shattered pieces from darkness and stitched them back together again is in trouble, and Jackson’s only chance to save him rests in the hands of fragile allies he barely knows.
It’s going to take a little bit of luck to get these Few Good Fish out alive!
REVIEW:
I’m a huge fan of this series. These books are probably my favourites of Lane’s to date. Jackson and Ellery just works for me on so many levels and I’ve been anticipating this book for months and months.
I was a bit worried when I started reading this book. I didn’t connect with the first chapter at all, and that didn’t set a good precedent for the rest of the book. But after the first chapter was done, the book took off with a bang. To the point where I was seriously questioning if sleep was necessary. And you know what? It’s not. And I don’t regret a thing.
These books don’t really stand on their own. They are all a part of a bigger picture, a bigger problem. Understatement of the century I know, but murdering, torturing serial killers is a bit of a mouthful. For each book, there is a small resolution at the end, but not in the way that you are able to relax, you know that there are more fights to come, more bad guys to catch, and from the information gathered the worst might yet to come.
For the most part I loved this book. I love Jackson and Ellery. I love how far they’ve gotten since the first book. Jackson especially have come so far – opening up and starting to trust and rely on another human being. Trusting happiness and love – he’s far from mushy and gooey, but he’s come leaps and bounds from where he started. And I can’t not say anything about Lucy Satan. I mean she’s Lucy Satan after all. The name kind of says it all. In this book we also get to see her as a human being, and not only as a force of nature to be reckoned with when things get tough.
So… not much about this plot was credible, but then again I didn’t need it to be. And as Lane wrote in the beginning, this book isn’t supposed to be read for accuracy, but for the entertainment and enjoyment – and I sure was entertained for the past few hours.
There were a few parts that I didn’t enjoy as much, and that was the psychic thing. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading books with psychics – finished one the other day in fact, but it just doesn’t fit in this story. It’s doesn’t fit with Jackson and Ellery. I liked both Ernie and Burton just fine as characters, but I still wished the story had gone in another direction.
All in all, this book had me at the edge of my seat, turning pages to see what was happening, who’d survive the explosions, hoping that the good guys would win once again.
Highly recommended.
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