Quite disappointed in this latest edition to what has been up till now, a smart, snappy series.

Started well with a look back at Evan's childhood, but there were too many elements crammed into this novel, especially in terms of Smoak's emotional development. It felt like Hurwitz was trying too hard to force Evan to develop as a character, and it came off as false and unrealistic. An interesting idea about unmanned drones was not fully explored and seemed almost secondary to the interpersonal relationships, which jumped from Mia and Peter, to his mother, to another key character to Joey and back to Mia. Too much at once and too schmaltzy for this series.

The last minute inclusion of Candy made no sense and was an insulting treatment for such a strong villain.

I will read the next one, I'm hopeful this was just a blip in the series.