Ahhh, one more adventure with the Leandros brothers. Five books in and I have not tired of them at all, in fact, I was sad I was so into the book that I was reading it at a rapid pace. I knew I'd be done in two days and would have to wait another year for the next installment.
I gave the book 4 stars because it is not profound. 5 Stars from me say a lot about my experience with the book and whether I find its themes universal. So 4 stars is a high rating for me. There are uiniversal themes in Roadkill with family and honor being two strong ones. Thurman also sets up an impossible to miss parallel story of Catcher, the werewolf trapped in wolf form. Catcher was once a brilliant college educated human, but now he is reduced to his simplest state and losing more and more of his humanity as time passes. Yet his cousin Rafferty will not give up.
This is just as it is for Cal, who is half human and slowly being taken over by his evil Auphe side. Yet his ever devoted brother Niko would never give up on him. As always, Roadkill is an action adventure story. There's lots of humor and crude language, there's tender brother moments, there's Cal being Auphe, there's potential danger and gory scenes! All of this occurs as the strange group, which also includes a Puck and his dead Egyptian cat, and a hot werewolf chick on a motorcycle, makes its way across country on the tail of a vehicle containing a great evil. This great evil is an antihealer known as the Plague of the World, and if unleashed his pestilance could destroy everyone on Earth. How do they fight something that strong? Read Roadkill and find out.
