House of the Sun

So I just finished reading the Nigel Findley Shadowrun Novel Collection, which I've read all of more than once before, but still I enjoyed. It was interesting - I payed a bit more attention this time than I have historically, I ended up feeling. Which is fine and all but occasionally disconcerting. The last book in the collection was "House of the Sun", about a Shadowrunner who goes to Hawaii (or Hawai'i, to be vaguely more correct) and gets involved in a bunch of stuff way over his head. It's an interesting book, in that frankly, he spends most of it whining about things being over his head and him just getting pushed from one thing to the next... While everyone around him seems to be begging him to use his influence to help fix events. He ends up trying to twist things to his own benefit (to recover his sister from a spirit that's inhabited her, actually, though it's played almost more like a cult)... But even though everything pretty much turns out well he ends the book alone and bitter and angry as all the things around him are getting better.

I ended up going back and forth in my head about whether or not I liked the writing, but either way, I could definitely appreciate the ending. I just like the fact that it's so atypical more than anything else, I guess.

Either way. It's an ending I can respect.