One Foot in the Fade

By Luke Arnold

You cannot fight for peace. You must give into it. You must let go.

Here we have the third installment of Fetch Phillips adventures, written into existence by Luke Arnold. I have to be honest, for the first two books, in my head, the main characters name was 'Fletch' not 'Fetch', so now that I know the main characters name, I feel like I can give an honest review.

Again, the cover is really cool and this blue is fantastic, but the story itself, not so much. That's not saying it was bad, but just tired and too similar to the other installments in the series. This felt like book number 2, something that just bridges book 1 and book 3, and thats it. It didn't add huge amounts of substance. I feel that this either is leading to the last book, or Arnold is trying to 'Nancy Drew' it and make as many novels in this vein as possible.

It was the same fast paced adventure that the other books had, but some things happened that I felt were just to fill the page and add some fluff to the story. Some new elements were brought in, some new characters and motivations, but the whole time felt like I've read this before.

My biggest ick from this book is that the title was used, verbatim, word for word, at least twice in the story by the characters. For some reason, that felt really cheesy and beneath Arnolds usually writing and story telling standard. Doing it once can be fun and add an almost 'easter-eggy' feel, but twice felt like an amateur wrote this and snuck it back in once the editor looked at it. I don't know why that really hung me up, but it did.

Over-all, this is still a really fun series to read, but this was the least strong book so far, in my opinion.

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