I was shocked when Eleanor died the way she did, it was so fast and there wasn't time for any reactions to it. I thought Bosch would end up back with her, at least for a while. I was rooting the whole time for Bosch as the body count got bigger to get back his daughter. The revelation that Maddie started the whole thing kind of bothered me (that it wasn't the Triad trying to keep Bosch in check). I thought something was going to happen with the daughter of the shopkeeper, but I thought it was going to be as potential love interest or something. Anyways, Bosch gets to be especially bada$$ in this book, and it would make a wonderful movie if it wasn't for Taken. The whole book is very cinematic.

It's funny, because as I was reading it, I also drew the parallel to Taken. It's very similar, even down to some of the minor details. As for the whole case, it was definitely the weakest Bosch plot to date. It was all happenstance (the "kidnapping" video is happened to be sent at the perfect time during a case Bosch happens to suspect the Triad in a case that they have absolutely nothing to do with? Thieves happen to try to rob Bosch at the same time that he thinks he is breaking into a Triad stronghold, which basically reinforces his whole theory, which was just plain wrong?). And while Eleanor's death definitely seemed rushed, at least it happened on the page, and wasn't dealt with off the page like Ignatio's death (and while I'm at it, the Ignatio death just poor as well, happening after finally having it out with Bosch, with Ignatio trying to play the hero after being afraid to go into the field since being shot).

if a blue triangle showed up on one of my testicles and started talking to me, you couldn't get me to a doctor fast enough. I don't care what kind of things the triangles are saying to me, or what kind of fear of doctors I might have. You just don't mess around with weird growths, especially on certain parts of the body.