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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is the third book in the Carter Blake series, and it’s a notable improvement over the first two. The plotting is cleaner, the characters are better, and it left me looking forward to the next one.
Certainly an action thriller which I thoroughly enjoyed. Enjoy reading about Blake Carter's activities and what he gets up to. This is the 3rd book in the series and look forward to reading more adventures.
ARC received from: Netgalley
Rating: 5*
One-Sentence Summary: Carter Blake's past catches up with him
Review: Those of us who have enjoyed the previous two Carter Blake books have been waiting for the showdown with his former employers with baited breath and it certainly did not disappoint.
Told in Cross's usual style of a mixture of POV, the story grabs your attention from the very start. The flashbacks to Blake's time with Winterlong gives background as to why they are after him and also to what Blake was like in his former life.
The present day story is action-packed and traverses mainland USA from West to East. There's Bond-like stunts on the top of a moving train and an epic showdown which will have you wondering just how the whole Winterlong plot arc will be wrapped up.
There is a satisfying end to the book and I only hope this is the beginning for Carter Blake and there will be more books to come in the series.
Originally posted @ Love's A State Of Mind
Another great book with Carter Blake as the hero. These books build on each other and get better and better
There are a few things I like better when reading than being pleasantly surprised. I’m not talking about pulling the rug out from under me or setting up some miraculous save at the last minute. I’m talking about when the author sets up a chain of events that at once makes sense but also strays far from the norm of the genre.
This book managed to do that twice.
Not only is it kosher to lay out this grand government conspiracy that’s been at the heart of the series for the first two books, but it’s fucking awesome to dismantle that conspiracy as of this book, book three. Not in book ten or fifteen—Cross burnt the “Big Bad” to the ground before I even realized how easily it could be burned. The second great twist was to not have somebody on the inside to switch allegiances, which is what I was expecting. Nope, the bad guys stayed bad and the neutral guys stayed neutral. For once, there wasn’t a sudden ally coming to the rescue.
All this would mean nothing if Cross hadn’t set up Carter Blake as a complex character with complex motivations in the first two books along with hints of the Winterlong Conspiracy. It also would mean nothing if the rest of the series didn’t have a direction for the future and a talented author to plot it.
Awesome fucking book, this one.
This book managed to do that twice.
Not only is it kosher to lay out this grand government conspiracy that’s been at the heart of the series for the first two books, but it’s fucking awesome to dismantle that conspiracy as of this book, book three. Not in book ten or fifteen—Cross burnt the “Big Bad” to the ground before I even realized how easily it could be burned. The second great twist was to not have somebody on the inside to switch allegiances, which is what I was expecting. Nope, the bad guys stayed bad and the neutral guys stayed neutral. For once, there wasn’t a sudden ally coming to the rescue.
All this would mean nothing if Cross hadn’t set up Carter Blake as a complex character with complex motivations in the first two books along with hints of the Winterlong Conspiracy. It also would mean nothing if the rest of the series didn’t have a direction for the future and a talented author to plot it.
Awesome fucking book, this one.
This series is just brilliant escapist reading and the pages flew by as our hero Carter Blake, tasked with finding a software expert who has stolen from a large organisation, comes up on the radar of the government agency for whom he worked for many years and who now want him eliminated. This is a classic chase story and what is not to love about a fight on a cross American train. I can't wait to read the next episode.
I like the Carter Blake series. Solid writing, plausible and exciting plot.