The Face in a Jar (Defragmenting Daniel, book 2)

By Jason Werbleoff

Blurb: 
Daniel’s gruesome crusade continues…

Keep your blood surging with this second installment of Defragmenting Daniel, and acquire a taste for murder.

Daniel has retrieved his cornea and knee, and made an unlikely ally in Margaret Evans. But Margaret, a bloodthirsty android that hungers for human parts, is an unstable accomplice. 

Pressure mounts, as Daniel searches for his tongue and lungs. Meanwhile, Kage and the Bubble Police Department draw ever closer to discovering the identity of the Organ Thief. 

Daniel must tread carefully, or risk losing more than just his organs.

Slice into The Face in a Jar now. Your brain will never be the same again.

Review: 
Thomsin is dead, and Daniel is on the run from Kage. Book 1 ended where Daniel had just managed to get out of Thomsin's apartment before Kage turned up, he cleaned the whole apartment and left no traces, he left Thomsin's glasses and credit cards within the apartment too so needs to find new ones, he can no longer be traced on his future movements/retrieval of body parts.

Daniel tries to seek a place to stay with Margaret for the time being, but she will only allow him if he gets her a onesie of skin, and a new part for her eye. Daniel accept these conditions if she gets him a new pair of glasses and a credit card with £1000 on.

The relationship between Daniel and Margaret is very strange, at certain points within the story I thought Daniel would end up killing her because she was searching his belongings and asking far too many questions. You can tell that Daniel can't trust her because he doesn't tell her when he is going to retrieve one of his body parts, I think this is because she doesn't really understand how the world works and doesn't really understand when she should say things or just keep quiet.

The part where you find out why the book is called the face in the jar was quite hilarious, but in a way I felt sorry for Daniel because Margaret and Hal had to make the decision on his behalf.

I felt that this book was much better when compared to the first one, I felt like there was more detail and the characters had developed quite a lot, it was nice to understand why things happened like that or why people didn't like certain things.

In this book Kage's character develops a lot as you find out about his past and about his childhood in the gutter. You also experience a few dates with him which turn out quite well but also disastrous at the same time.

This book had quite a bit of suspense and thriller in it and I felt this made the book a lot more fast paced and enticed you to read it all in one go rather than keep having breaks.

I liked how you can see how much better of a private investigator Kage is as he has managed to figure out the link between the people and is now trying to prevent anyone deaths, people injured. I feel sorry for him in a way because souldiers won't listen to him or get the forensic teams in when he requests.

There was still quite a few six scenes within the book but they weren't too drastic, I could cope with these hence why the star rating is up compared to book 1. The reason why I isn't 5 stars is because I didn't super enjoy it and felt like I could form a friendship with the characters.

Overall though I'd recommend this book/series as it is unusual, gruesome, and a thriller. The story is also well set out and there is no drastic scene changes so you aren't trying to undersand why they jumped from place to place. It flows really nicely so you feel like you are a part of the adventure.

Favourite Character: Daniel

Read: 09/08/18 - 10/08/18


4 stars out of 5

Check out book 2: The Boy Without a Heart

written by Sammie