★★★★½
Doubleday | 2022
Filed Under: Make Racists Afraid Again
I loved this instalment in the Alive Vega series.
LOVED.
I may be one of only a few giving this such a high rating, but I stand by it. It was sealed for me by the time Vega grabbed a bat and went on a Lemonade-esque rampage against white nationalists.
But it didn’t start out in a way that convinced me I was going to love this. When the novel opens with a college football scene and then Vega taking on the case of a footballer missing for 30 years, I thought, ugh not sports! But the football angle really is just the catalyst for discovering a Nazi movement disrupting a small town and all the murder and mayhem that follows as Vega takes it upon herself to deliver some “find out” after right-wing turds fuck around.
White nationalis,ts and a missing athlete cold case is an odd combination, but it works.
Vega kicking white nationalist ass:
Me:
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