Book: The Tithe volume #1 written and co-created by Matt Hawkins and illustrated and co-created by Rahsan Ekedal with color by Bill Farmer and Mike Spicer
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Description:
A heist story unlike any before! Mega-churches are being robbed for millions of dollars by a crusader hacker group known as Samaritan who is giving the money to causes they deem more worthy. This modern day "Robin Hood" is being pursued by two FBI agents who actually admire their quarry, but want to stop the theft before it escalates.
Rating: 3 1/2 stars
Review:
This first volume of The Tithe has an interesting take on the modern day heist with a Robin Hood type hacker group going after fraudulent churches.
The group known to the public simply as Samaritan included Samantha Copeland as the brains/hacker, Kyle Araman, his younger brother Kyle and Kyle's girlfriend Rachel Marvin. The group targeted some of the most high profile churches and devised elaborate plans to not only steal large amounts of money and jewelry (which they donated to worthy charities) that had been hidden away from their congregations. But also to put the spotlight on some of the illicit and bad behavior the priests and minsters were getting up to such as drugs, embezzlement and more.
But with each bold attempt, a team of FBI agents were trying to track down Samaritan. Leading the team was Dwayne Campbell and James Miller (a hacker) who were using all of their resources to find the group before things got out of hand. With public support growing in favor of Samaritan, the FBI desperately needed to bring in the group.
This started out so strong but it was the ending that ruined it. Not only was it very cliché but also very sloppy and predictable. I guess I was expecting something a bit more out of the box for the ending with the interesting way this story was being told.
For the most part this was a good story, unfortunately it had a very weak ending.
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