All that beautiful brown skin and the scent of cologne in the air and everyone hanging on his next movement.

He swung the flute back toward his daughter, the perfumed liquid catching the light, fizzing and straw-colored. The plot is based smack dab in gang territory with all of the horrific crime, grit, horror, and distrust you can imagine, along with impossible situations that boggle the mind. We are given the cliffhanger and outcome for the previous book and the beginning of the next book in the series which makes me interested in reading some more of them. Tommy his weapons/gun supplier, Joey the young cast-off from the Orphan program, and of course Mia and Peter from 12B.

So far, I've read books 2, 4, 6 and 7 and the only major complaint I have is that the events in the four books occur roughly within the same year and despite being sometimes severely wounded, our hero never needs time to heal nor do we get to see him actually receive medical treatment. In the meantime, he has left the teen-aged super hacker, Joey, in charge of renovations to his heavily damaged penthouse apartment. As the story opens Orphan X is refitting and upgrading his fortress penthouse after an explosion destroyed it.

They moved faster, faster, courting disaster right through the crescendo, and yet impossibly they finished the waltz, eliciting a hailstorm of cheers. I remember listening at the door of your piano lesson while you tortured over the fingering for ‘Here Comes the Sun.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There are some fantastic characters introduced in this book, especially Aragon Urrea whom Evan is enlisted to help.