5 Stars!
Wow! This mystery turned me on my head in the first chapter! Although I enjoyed THE GOF GAME, reading it just prior to SHADOW PUPPET, and found it intriguing--especially so for the villain-who-hides-in-plain-sight and said villain's eventual justification--I find SHADOW PUPPET more engrossing: not politics here, but Toronto's Gay Community: the missing, the questionable, the murdered. Author Jeffrey Round is very aware of his community, his characters, and his city, gently drawing in readers so that we feel at hime--or at least, as up close observers and witnesses. I admire protagonist's Dan Sharp's sense of justice, his striving to be self-aware despite not always achieving that, his dedication to fatherhood, the friendships he values so highly. I'd like to give this book about 10 Stars!
The author states that although SHADOW PUPPET is Book 6, following THE GOD GAME, it's time frame is between THE JADE BUTTERFLY and AFTER THE HORSES [Book 3 and Book 4].
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