Keeper

Rucka lays out a great book with very well drawn characters and a plot that twists and turns. He's also dealing with some really important and controversial themes. I'm not sure that the ending works very well for me....it's very abrupt, and I feel like we needed a little more closure on some of the characters.

Actually a little better than I thought it was going to be going into it. Greg Rucka manages to spin out a pretty taut, compelling thriller, even if some parts of it feel like they're stretching the possibilities (I lost track of how many times I found myself thinking "how is Kodiak not locked up by now"). I'll definitely go for another go-around with Kodiak et al.

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).

Greg gave my husband a copy of the book and wanted his thoughts. I read it because we knew him, even though it is a genre I don’t like. At the time, I avoided first-person stories, even in genres I do like. I didn’t like the book because it isn’t the style I like in the first place, but I liked that he described his characters as more than two-dimensional. He added details to make the story seem more realistic. That’s good. Given that I don’t like the genre but read the entire book means I would give it 3 stars.

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.

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.

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.