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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
I won an ARC through Goodreads. This was not as enjoyable as the other books in the Jack Reacher series.
Задължително четиво за любителите на Лий Чайлд. Рийчър разнищва мистерия и бие лошите по един странен начин, включващ математика, физика и оптика. Или поне думички от споменатите науки.
"They didn't rule the world by being nice. And neither did we, when our time came."
Yay AND We Know THAT nobody doesn't rule the world by being dumb...
My old Reacher are you getting old?!! Another great one, but not as good as the greatest ones! I just wish he wasn't in the babysitter role...and a little more realistic...
Yay AND We Know THAT nobody doesn't rule the world by being dumb...
My old Reacher are you getting old?!! Another great one, but not as good as the greatest ones! I just wish he wasn't in the babysitter role...and a little more realistic...
Not my favorite Reacher, but as always relaxing to read some Lee Child. I'm looking forward to the next one and hope to have a less farfetched story to read then.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A bit different than your typical Reacher novel. Reacher is pulled back into the Army to help locate a missing sharpshooter. This book finds him traveling to Paris and London via private plane, quite different from his usual hitchhiking or bus riding ways. This Reacher novel switches back to the first person, and allows you to see things from Reacher's perspective and get inside his mind.
Not as good as the earlier books in the series, but a page turner, nonetheless.
Not as good as the earlier books in the series, but a page turner, nonetheless.
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The Jack Reacher series, although I haven’t read them all, is usually a fun and reliable action thriller that usually makes good holiday reads so I took Personal on holiday with me when I went to France earlier in August, and devoured it fairly quickly. These books are almost always, regardless of their quality, quick reads, and Child has mastered the ability to keep readers hooked from page to page as he takes Reacher on the hunt for a sniper that has gone rogue, by the name of John Kott. He failed to kill the President, and now the stakes are higher than ever especially with the forthcoming G8 summit.
By now, it’s clear that Reacher is going to stop the bad guy at the end of the book and nineteen books in the series never really has any chance of being unpredictable. But it’s great to see Reacher kicking ass and taking names throughout the book even if it doesn’t bring anything new to the table that would freshen it up from the other Reacher novels currently available (and there’s a lot of alternatives out there!). There’s a reason why I don’t read these books too often, because after a while they keep feeling incredibly similar.
However, that said, we do get to see countries explored beyond the usual American setting in Personal and it was cool to see Reacher in England and France. This was one of the few things that the book did to try and differentiate itself from the small backwater town with hidden secrets of previous books but still there was nothing really here to stand out at the same time and it could have easily been set in America and we wouldn’t have noticed the difference, as there isn’t really any sense of atmosphere created. It’s just Reacher going to places and getting the job done, as usual.
The secondary characters aren’t really memorable or at all that exciting. The antagonist John Kott is just about as generic as you can get and Casey Nice doesn’t really do anything to seperate herself from the supporting female leads that have accompanied Reacher in the previous novels, and only Reacher himself has any lasting impact, his character of course being long familiar with readers by now, almost 20 books in.
Personal starts slowly for your average Reacher novel and when the action does come again it feels kind of repetitive as you’re thrust into one brawl after another. It’s well written action to be fair, but that’s about it. It just feels like a random run of the mill thriller with stuff that seems to work which is a shame because we know what Child has been capable of in the past, it just feels like this has been too rushed for me and is overall a disappointment, despite having a few moments of disposable action fun.
Die-hard Reacher fans will probably enjoy this one though, but for me, Personal isn’t one of Child’s best works, feeling more rushed than usual and unless you’re a completist it’s probably a good idea to skip this one and hope that the next entry in the series is better.
The Jack Reacher series, although I haven’t read them all, is usually a fun and reliable action thriller that usually makes good holiday reads so I took Personal on holiday with me when I went to France earlier in August, and devoured it fairly quickly. These books are almost always, regardless of their quality, quick reads, and Child has mastered the ability to keep readers hooked from page to page as he takes Reacher on the hunt for a sniper that has gone rogue, by the name of John Kott. He failed to kill the President, and now the stakes are higher than ever especially with the forthcoming G8 summit.
By now, it’s clear that Reacher is going to stop the bad guy at the end of the book and nineteen books in the series never really has any chance of being unpredictable. But it’s great to see Reacher kicking ass and taking names throughout the book even if it doesn’t bring anything new to the table that would freshen it up from the other Reacher novels currently available (and there’s a lot of alternatives out there!). There’s a reason why I don’t read these books too often, because after a while they keep feeling incredibly similar.
However, that said, we do get to see countries explored beyond the usual American setting in Personal and it was cool to see Reacher in England and France. This was one of the few things that the book did to try and differentiate itself from the small backwater town with hidden secrets of previous books but still there was nothing really here to stand out at the same time and it could have easily been set in America and we wouldn’t have noticed the difference, as there isn’t really any sense of atmosphere created. It’s just Reacher going to places and getting the job done, as usual.
The secondary characters aren’t really memorable or at all that exciting. The antagonist John Kott is just about as generic as you can get and Casey Nice doesn’t really do anything to seperate herself from the supporting female leads that have accompanied Reacher in the previous novels, and only Reacher himself has any lasting impact, his character of course being long familiar with readers by now, almost 20 books in.
Personal starts slowly for your average Reacher novel and when the action does come again it feels kind of repetitive as you’re thrust into one brawl after another. It’s well written action to be fair, but that’s about it. It just feels like a random run of the mill thriller with stuff that seems to work which is a shame because we know what Child has been capable of in the past, it just feels like this has been too rushed for me and is overall a disappointment, despite having a few moments of disposable action fun.
Die-hard Reacher fans will probably enjoy this one though, but for me, Personal isn’t one of Child’s best works, feeling more rushed than usual and unless you’re a completist it’s probably a good idea to skip this one and hope that the next entry in the series is better.
Listened to the audio book. At the beginning, I thought maybe Dick Hill had been ill, he sounded very old suddenly. But things smoothed out, although the different accents were a little grating. I didn't figure it out until the clues were too big, in other words about 30 seconds before he explained it. I bet there are folks out there that figured it out much sooner, I'd like to meet you!!Starting to think maybe this series is losing some steam, but can't be sure yet. Haven't read in order, so I still have a few more to look forward to.