For once in quite a while I can say I enjoyed a DL book, the last few have all been well below par but to me Thunder road is up above that par.

We don’t get continuity from the last book -then again we do, as it starts somewhere and possibly some when else from the previous book just like the last dozen or so. Hence in a perverse sort of way we have continuity!

The story revolves around the main antagonist "Thunder rider" and his one man quest to bring his idea of law and order to Deathlands. This quest is set off at a tangent when he comes in contact with Ryan and co. and sets about trying to get the group to join his good fight. I won’t give away the plot further and spoil it for you but I will say we have the descendant of a famous Mr. Hughes, the return of an old group of semi-allies and some good (in my opinion here) characterization of the group and other characters. We also have NO silly muties to laugh at and no pointless sex scenes.

Overall I enjoyed this book and whoever the writer is I sure hope he does another few DL's like this. I'm not going to give this a 10 out of 10, that’s silly saying its perfect, its not (some of the sub characters are placed to do nothing but get killed in place of the main heroes !), however I am going to rate it above the average as it kept me entertained and looking forward to finding just what happens next.

I gave this book a solid 8 mostly because it was not a standard DL novel. It was a bit of a departure. This is the best DL novel I have read in a while. We all read these books because we care about the characters and it was the characterization that was dead on. All the companions were written to perfection. Is it a perfect book? No, of course not. Any of my small complaints would give away some of the story. It's a solid DL read which, sadly, is a rare thing.