49 reviews for:

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes

Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone

3.46 AVERAGE

lulureads1's review

3.0

adventurous emotional tense

sourcerunner's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring tense fast-paced

k_kidd's review against another edition

3.0

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Note - this review is for the audiobook. This is a great story, but I found it hard to follow the non-sequential timeline on audiobook. There are so many flashbacks, so interspersed in the story-telling, that it may have been helpful to have a different voice for the flashbacks so the listener would have a clue we just jumped again. It's unfortunate, because even with it's short-comings, I really did like the story it told.

kealaona's review against another edition

4.0

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I enjoyed the story but agree with the reviews ranging from 1-4 stars. Fun lil bunker read.

lbgandhi's review against another edition

4.0

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This is a 3.5 star review for me. I'm rounding up because of the true heroes these boys are. Without a second thought or even a hesitation, they jumped into action and took down a terrorist. As the French President said, they stopped what could have been Paris's 9/11. The writing itself was more of a 3 star. And I really hate that, because their story is incredible, remarkable and inspirational. I think unfortunately they had the wrong author write their story.

wengergal's review against another edition

3.0

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I think for this book it is extremely important to distinguish between the true life event and the writing. The story (5 stars) of these three men is an unbelievable story of a multitude of circumstances that all had to fall in to place at just the right time. If one of these circumstances would have not occurred, we wouldn't have had this story. So the story in itself is amazing. What heroes.

Now the actually story telling and writing (3 stars) left something to be desired. It wasn't that is necessarily poor. So much of the story was redundant. It felt like the publisher wanted to tell their story but it wasn't going to be a long enough book so they had to drag it out. The same details were told multiple times. Now, the actual three men wrote the book and I understand they are not authors. So I will grant them some leniency but their editor could have helped with this.

I listened to this on audio and it was a good performance for a narrator.

lizrushby's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective

allthebookblognamesaretaken's review against another edition

3.0

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This is a tough one to rate, because if I were to give it a low rating it feels like I'm giving these heroes a low rating. That's not it at all. The writing style of Jeffrey Stern is very frustrating. At least I anticipate that he wrote this with the assistance of the three young men. The narration was so disjointed, it was kind of frustrating. I don't even know what else to say. Full review to come. Maybe.

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libraryofpip's review against another edition

2.0

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this book is aggressively average

my major critiques are
-why was this written in third person, it bugged the hell out of me
-so?many?rhetorical?questions?
-this book does this thing where it repeats itself by rephrasing what the previous sentence says.

extraordinary dudes tho.

emma_vivian's review

3.75

adventurous dark hopeful informative fast-paced