Review: Badlands

Badlands by Douglas Preston
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Grand Central for the pre-release copy of Badlands by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Below is my honest review.

I'm a huge Preston & Child fan, and I really love Nora and Corrie. This one did NOT disappoint. In fact, it might be one of my favorites in the Pendergast world so far.

This one follows Corrie and Nora as they work together to investigate a five year old corpse found in the heat of the Badlands - the naked corpse of an adult woman, her clothes casually dropped one piece at a time as she wandered into the desert sands until she collapsed and cooked to death, leaving only a pair of Gallina tribal lightning stones in her hands.

As the two leads delve deeper into this odd almost ritualistic suicide, they find out that there is much, much more going on, and they are thrust into dangerous territory - both physically (the worst parts of the barren desert areas of New Mexico) and case-wise.

Highly recommend this one. Absolutely fantastic. One of their best!

This one could totally be read as a standalone, though it does connect back to the Pendergast series and the previous entries in this Corrie/Nora spinoff series. You'll enjoy it either way, but definitely suggest getting the most of out by reading ALL THE BOOKS! :)

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