Keeper

Chronologically, this is the first of Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak novels (and the first of any of his novels). It's an action novel with an unusual degree of character analysis. At the same time, it tangentially examines one of the most perplexing social problems facing our culture. ( )

I started reading this (and subsequent Greg Rucka books) while recuperating from surgery on my shoulder. My son swore by the series, and thought I would get a kick from them.

Let me say that KEEPER would not impress me if not for the fact that my son recommended him, and I had very little else I could do while my shoulder healed. The book reads like a first book, lacks some consistency, lacks depth, and is basically comic-book story telling in words only.

That said, it did have its entertainment value - it was a quick read, nothing deep to sidetrack the reader, and full of gratuitous violence (and rather immature stabs at angst and moral reasoning). ( )

http://literaryfeline.blogspot.com/2007/11/keeper-by-greg-rucka.html ( )

Bodyguard Kodiak is an ok bodyguard but he seems to get into too many scrapes and traps; ok story but with somewhat unrealistic or unauthentic situations at various points in the story.

Solid; dude knows the business of bodyguarding and spins an entertaining tale out of it, but he's not as strong a writer of novels as he is of comics--the prose is a bit on the flat side. ( )