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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I need to read a paper copy. Too hard to follow for an audiobook.
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was 800 pages of struggle. It’s narrated by a character so profoundly irritating I wondered at first if it was being done on purpose as a way for the author to indicate we should not like this character but realised by page 400 it was just how the book is written.
The narrators internal monologue is so smug I ended up rooting for the terrorist he’s hunting.
The writer employs an irritating device at least 5 times where he gets the main character to foreshadow something, saying something like ‘and that made what I went on to do even worse’ or ‘if only I knew what a mistake that was’ but then takes so long to reveal what that foreshadowing is hinting at that you’ve forgotten he foreshadowed it at all. Which means encountering this device is a bit redundant for the reader because you have no idea what he’s on about and by the time you find out you’ve forgotten it was something you were meant to be excited to have revealed.
The book also spends huge amounts of pages on side quests. The essential plot of this book could have been handled in 300 odd pages, the other 500 are spent by the main character monologue-ing about his childhood, or cool secret missions he went on as a young man, or his relationship with his parents, or his thoughts on the 9/11 memorial. Perhaps if the character was more likeable I wouldn’t have minded so much but I felt a bit like I was being held hostage by a boring man at a bar who won’t stop talking at me.
The narrators internal monologue is so smug I ended up rooting for the terrorist he’s hunting.
The writer employs an irritating device at least 5 times where he gets the main character to foreshadow something, saying something like ‘and that made what I went on to do even worse’ or ‘if only I knew what a mistake that was’ but then takes so long to reveal what that foreshadowing is hinting at that you’ve forgotten he foreshadowed it at all. Which means encountering this device is a bit redundant for the reader because you have no idea what he’s on about and by the time you find out you’ve forgotten it was something you were meant to be excited to have revealed.
The book also spends huge amounts of pages on side quests. The essential plot of this book could have been handled in 300 odd pages, the other 500 are spent by the main character monologue-ing about his childhood, or cool secret missions he went on as a young man, or his relationship with his parents, or his thoughts on the 9/11 memorial. Perhaps if the character was more likeable I wouldn’t have minded so much but I felt a bit like I was being held hostage by a boring man at a bar who won’t stop talking at me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Islamophobia, War
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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