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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
I'm posting my first review of 2022 and unfortunately it's a dnf. I read all the Jack Reacher books many years ago and liked them. After a many year hiatus and with several new JR books available I started reading them again. I generally like them because the writing is easy to read and I can get into the book right away.
Edit: I just realized that this book is a collab or ghost written with his brother Andrew Child and that's why it's so different. I looked at the next book, also a collab, and see many of the same comments. Oh well, I guess it's the end of the series for me.
JR is an ex-MP who is traveling the country with only a toothbrush and rights any wrongs he sees with vigilante justice. It helps that he's big and strong and easily defeats and beats up multiple assailants, including those with semi-automatics. I guess it's a feel good sensation to deal with crims and baddies vicariously.
I didn't like this last book because it falls afoul of my pet peeve: alternating POV's. It seems that Lee Child has decided to change his writing style and make something different but why fix something if it ain't broke? I dislike changing POVs because I'm settled in one and I don't like switching mentally, it's like reading 2 books in alternating chapters. Also, there are too many people in this book, it's too busy. Instead of a fairly straight plot line there are dead ends everywhere. I'm halfway through the book and I'm not sure who all these people are. I lost interest and decided to dnf.
Spoilers:
JR gets off a Greyhound in a smallish town in Tennessee. He meets a guy, Rusty Rutherford who's the IT manager for the city. The city is under a ransomware attack and Rusty is fired for not being able to stop it. The plot goes on to include Russian interference in local elections as a prelude to national elections. I don't feel that Lee Childs is that comfortable with technical stuff and I think he should stick to less technical plots.
JR has been a good series but I'm glad to try something else which GoodReads has recommended on the JR page.
Edit: I just realized that this book is a collab or ghost written with his brother Andrew Child and that's why it's so different. I looked at the next book, also a collab, and see many of the same comments. Oh well, I guess it's the end of the series for me.
JR is an ex-MP who is traveling the country with only a toothbrush and rights any wrongs he sees with vigilante justice. It helps that he's big and strong and easily defeats and beats up multiple assailants, including those with semi-automatics. I guess it's a feel good sensation to deal with crims and baddies vicariously.
I didn't like this last book because it falls afoul of my pet peeve: alternating POV's. It seems that Lee Child has decided to change his writing style and make something different but why fix something if it ain't broke? I dislike changing POVs because I'm settled in one and I don't like switching mentally, it's like reading 2 books in alternating chapters. Also, there are too many people in this book, it's too busy. Instead of a fairly straight plot line there are dead ends everywhere. I'm halfway through the book and I'm not sure who all these people are. I lost interest and decided to dnf.
Spoilers:
JR gets off a Greyhound in a smallish town in Tennessee. He meets a guy, Rusty Rutherford who's the IT manager for the city. The city is under a ransomware attack and Rusty is fired for not being able to stop it. The plot goes on to include Russian interference in local elections as a prelude to national elections. I don't feel that Lee Childs is that comfortable with technical stuff and I think he should stick to less technical plots.
JR has been a good series but I'm glad to try something else which GoodReads has recommended on the JR page.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
As a devote Reacher fan, I suppose I had to read the latest Reacher book. This is the first joint effort between Lee Child and his brother and it is quite clear that the style is fairly different, with Reacher being quite chatty here!
To be honest, I did not really like the last 2 Reacher books, it was quite obvious that the author was getting a bit tired/bored/whatever of them and to be honest, they were quite bad. This final book, started off quite good actually and for a moment , about 1/3 of the way through, I thought that this is it - we are back to the good-old Reacher books that gripped the interest from the first page to the very end.
Well, I couldn't be more wrong; about half-way through the book, I lost all interest in the story, the ending was..meh.. with no twists or interesting developments..just plain boring.
I don't know if I will bother to continue reading if any new Reacher books get published in the future on the basis of this one...
To be honest, I did not really like the last 2 Reacher books, it was quite obvious that the author was getting a bit tired/bored/whatever of them and to be honest, they were quite bad. This final book, started off quite good actually and for a moment , about 1/3 of the way through, I thought that this is it - we are back to the good-old Reacher books that gripped the interest from the first page to the very end.
Well, I couldn't be more wrong; about half-way through the book, I lost all interest in the story, the ending was..meh.. with no twists or interesting developments..just plain boring.
I don't know if I will bother to continue reading if any new Reacher books get published in the future on the basis of this one...
mysterious
tense
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A decent Reacher and this one has Russian spies and Nazis, for fun!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture
Quite the page turner. Very well done. Read it in two days flat. I'm OK with the aspect that Andrew Child brings to the party, not an improvement, though, just a bit different.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
I enjoyed the audio on this one and the premise. It was an interesting story line and kept my attention.