02-18-2026, 09:52 PM
#9:Feral Vengeance by Emily Kimmelman. This is Book 19 of the Sydney Rye “mystery” series. Sydney is an assassin who concentrates primarily on rapists and misogynists, which is a nice fantasy. She’s also a dog lover. Her dog, Blue, is described as “tall as a Great Dane but skinnier, with the snout of a collie, the markings of a Siberian husky, the ears and tail of a shepherd, and the body of a wolf with one blue eye and one brown.” I don’t particularly like or empathize with any of the humans in this series, but I do like the dog, and the fact that no matter how bad things get, the author never harms the dog. However, I think this is the last one of these I’ll bother reading. In the beginning, it was a genuinely interesting mystery series with some extreme and unexpected twists. Now, it’s mostly vengeance porn. This latest book was Kimmelman musing about bringing together a group of elite assassins to kill all of the top AI financiers; characters that were clearly standing in for Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel, et al. Very violent, and in the end, not terribly original or satisfying.
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