{"id":11745,"date":"2019-03-09T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11745"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T22:19:21","slug":"fair-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11745","title":{"rendered":"Fair Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fair Chance<\/a><\/em> (2017) Josh Lanyon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Elliot Mills and Tucker Lance are settling into something akin to domestic bliss. Things are still uncomfortable with Roland, after they put his father’s good friend and old radical partner in jail for murder. <\/p>\n

Elliot must have looked fairly horror-struck because Tucker laughed. \u201cListen, your father gets caught up in this stuff, in his causes du jour, but I guarantee you he has no idea you feel like this.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want him to know I feel like this,\u201d Elliot said. He gave a short laugh. \u201cI\u2019m not sure I want to know I feel like this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Tucker’s discovery of his mother is also difficult, since she and her husband are conservative Christians who are not comfortable with Tucker’s sexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not even\u2014 or not only\u2014 the visible and pained trying to adjust to finding out gay runs in the genes. It\u2019s the whole… the holy-roller stuff.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cSure…\u201d Elliot didn\u2019t really have an answer because it bothered him too. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know if I believe in God. They\u2019re so conservative they make me look like a bleeding-heart liberal.\u201d <\/p>\n

Elliot laughed. \u201cUh, no. But I\u2019m getting a kick out of the fact you think so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On top of that, they are still trying to discover where “The Sculptor–the serial killer from the first book–hid the rest of the bodies, and it seems like Elliot is the key to getting the murderer to talk. <\/p>\n

When the hell were they going to be done with him and able to move on with their lives?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First thing–that last bit sounds like a trope, but it fits very cleanly into the story and the past between the two characters. Second, I like the fact that things were not over and done with at the end of the first book. Catching a murderer is one thing–but getting him to trial and getting a guilty plea is something else entirely, and a lot of work.<\/p>\n

The previous two books were good, but this one was a page turner, where I was afraid of how things were going to turn out, but nothing was far-fetched or unreasonable, which I very much appreciated. And I also like how much drudge work for both Elliot and Tucker is discussed or shown. <\/p>\n

It’s an excellent conclusion to the series.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Carina Press
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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