Status Updates From The Heretic (Duncan McCorma...

In this and book 1, there were multiple bad guys, ye? But in the first, you only got Paton's POV, and I liked him. In this, you get Chris Kidd, and I can be sympathetic to his story, though idc much about him. At least at this point we can be pretty sure he didn't actually kill anyone--someone else set the tenement fire & he's the fall guy. But we're also getting Chisholm's POV, and he's just shit through and through

I'm still so confused when they talk about the fire from the beginning of the book.. they always say four victims, four were killed. I could swear we were told there were only three people in the building. Mom and daughter, old man downstairs. I must have completely missed something. That, or it's a last minute reveal situation.

Really! Figures Nicol's background involves a lost pregnancy. Women aren't allowed any other kind of backstory, after all. Ugh. Seriously. Did that add anything of real value to her character? She was developing just fine up to this point.

?? Shand's wedding photo on tv, but he ain't married, he only had a fiancee.. engagement photos, I guess?

So uhh.. why has McCormack just gone and smashed up a bar? I mean, I'm sure it's another mob place, but seems a little over the top (not to mention dangerous) if they're just looking to question people