A pretty mediocre book. I'm a pretty avid fan of the whole Crow concept and own the movie trilogy on dvd. I found some in depth aspects of the Crow's powers in this book pretty interesting but as a whole this novel was found lacking. You have a set of good characters who aren't flesh out enough for the reader to care too much about them. Then you got your evil characters who pretty much eat, kill, have sex, practice black magic. So in the end you have a hero that you're not particularly attached to chasing the bad guys in his quest for vengeance for the deaths of his beloved and himself. Thanks to some supernatural power, the main character Dan Cody, manages to follow the bad guys pretty accurately (I don't think he took a single wrong turn). They finally meet up together and he kills them, then he dies. There's an attempt to fake the reader out with a possible GREATER evil mastermind behind the story but that person turns out to be a celebrity heroine addict (yay...). I think if the novel was fleshed out a bit more and if the author went into more detail about the gore and black magic aspects, that this might of been a decent book.
I recommend this novel to people who are semi interested in the Crow series. For people who aren't interested this probably won't be your cup of tea. Even for Crow fans this will be dull read.
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