My five year old and my two year old were playing with my Kindle Fire. They downloaded the Daily Deal from Amazon and so I was stuck owning this book.

But I read it anyway. I wanted to see what their literary taste was like. I was not really impressed with my kids on this score.

This is a sophmore novel from Bobby Cole revisiting characters from The Dummy Line. I did not read The Dummy Line so I had no investment in the central characters. And I didn't think Cole developed them enough to make me really care about them. I found the characters of Jake Crosby, Morgan and Katy to be rather flat and uninteresting.

However there are a number of other characters in the book which are interesting. I liked the character of Moon Pie (the chief antagonist) and the geriatric robbers who steal from him. Moon Pie's brother Levi is a likeable character.

There is enough twists in the storyline to keep you reading. I may have liked this better if I read Dummy Line first. But it is mindless fiction not good literature. Read if you read the first novel and like a piece of literary distraction. ( )