Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

 

This was a bit of a disappointment for a few reasons. The prose was pretty solid, with some nicely turned phrases, but that's about the extent of the good. The characters are various degrees of implausible--some heroic, some villainous, at least one way beyond hapless--and the story itself is just wildly complicated, even more complicated than the forty-three POVs make it seem. (That number is approximate and might be somewhat exaggerated.)  There's a really major character who's never a POV and thinking about it that's a negative space, probably intentional, definitely defensible, but the lack of any resolution to any of the questions about that character is definitely kinda unpalatable. Also, for some reason, it's set in 2010, though the copyright date is 2024, for no reason in the story, which makes me think this might have been sitting around for a while. Call me underwhelmed, and (now) completely uninterested in the series fiction he's writing.