Day of Atonement

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing.
Review: Where to begin. The story was good in that I appreciated Pete's tenacity in tracking down Noam (although I wonder if he would have put quite that much effort into it if it had not been 'family') per se. Also, in this one, Peter comes face to face with his birth mother and his half siblings, nieces, nephews, etc. The disappointing part was the beginning. When the third book ended, we knew that Peter and Rina had become engaged, but nothing more had been said about it. As this book begins, they are on their honeymoon in New York. I was flabbergasted. The series' basis of the Decker/Lazarus relationship has been tenuous at best up until this point. Then, to start this book and realize the Kellerman just skipped what could have been another whole storyline just blew me away. The absence of wedding plans, weeks leading up to the wedding, and the wedding itself left a great big empty hole in this series. I think that if the two main protagonists were Decker and his partner the series would be alright, but Kellerman's attempt at making the Decker/Lazarus relationship part of the main storyline instead of a secondary storyline really brings down this series.