Status Updates From Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5)

I’m pausing to write an update because I don’t want this book to end. I will miss Brodie and Reggie, but I know they will return. But not Crystal and her step-son Harry. I gravitate toward women who survive abuse and go on to control their lives and I have a soft spot for protective older brothers. I will miss these characters. Hey, Kate, any chance you will bring them back?

At about the halfway mark, this book has taken a turn for me. One of my favorite characters, Crystal, is in trouble. And she has wisely hired Brodie. I had been enjoying “Big Sky,” but now I’m engaged on another level. Might have to binge-read all the way to the end.

For the first 100 pages of the return of Jackson Brodie, the reader is learning much more about the extended cast of characters than about Jackson and his teenage son. I already have of sense of where it's going; I'm anxious for Jackson to come back onto the scene and for him to reconnect with Reggie, who is now a police officer.