Laurel's Reviews > Worse Angels

Isaiah Coleridge is a character who keeps jumping that raised bar, at every opportunity. In this third installment, Barron dips Coleridge's toe deeper into the pool of the unexplained, edging the series closer to a horror/noir mashup. Relationships are fleshed out, side characters enhanced, and we get more of Coleridge's past.

I'd have been along for the ride just for all of those benefits, but the story arc in Worse Angels has everything. A creepy cult, an abandoned super collider, and the last guy to take the case came away with injuries bad enough to end his private eye career. So naturally Coleridge is the man for the job, and we're taken along a beautifully paced, intense story.

And if all that wasn't enough to sell you on it, I can't say enough about the quality of Barron's writing. So many lines in this book that made me stop and soak them in, that felt like truths even before I knew where they fit. This is an author who gets people, and has spent a long time living in his humanity, to be able to paint such a clear picture. I can't wait for more Coleridge.