Razorblade Tears

9/10

This is a very good crime thriller centering on two men who are quite different who have to come together and learn how to be better people while having to solve a problem . Its been done before, but it's done pretty well here. My only real criticism of this book is that sometimes the dialogue was corny or just straight up ham fisted, like Cosby had a point to make and needed you to know it. There were also a couple times where the language the character would use would be out of character in a way that brought me out of it - an example is a middle aged southern white man (whose whole “thing” in the book is that he is somewhat unintentionally racist, and bigoted to boot) refers to someone in his head as “Latinx”, which is just unlikely.

However, the core of the book is very good. The mystery portion of it wasn't revolutionary, but I didn't see it coming, and I do like how both lead characters, Ike and Bobby Lee, grew and challenged each other throughout the book. The ending was really dang good. I'll definitely read more from S.A. Cosby.