2007 Book Log #63: Access Denied, by Donna Andrews

Access Denied is the third book in the Turing Hopper series by Donna Andrews, and so far it's been the only one that really never quite gelled for me. Plot-wise, we've got Turing and her human allies trying to dig into what looks like credit card fraud on the surface--and what may actually be illicit activity on the part of Nestor Garcia, the criminal they last saw making off with T2, Turing's clone sister. There are some not half-bad subplots involving Turing needing to work at understanding when she's actually pissed off her human compatriots, and some side characters racheting up in importance as Turing begins to try to consider a controlled revelation of her existence.

However, for whatever reason, this time none of it ever quite clicked for me. Jumping back and forth a lot between Turing's POV as well as Tim's and Maude's (and occasionally those of other characters as well) made things feel a little scattered and superficial to me. And I suppose it doesn't help much that I'm actually way more interested in seeing Turing's fellow AIPs develop as characters than I am in the humans. C'mon, Ms. Andrews, work on KingFischer! ;) I'm not ditching the series yet, but it's definitely moved towards the lighter end of my reading spectrum. Two and a half stars.