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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5 Stars
This could have been 5 stars for a great story; but my goodness it was beyond descriptive.
I know it was a first book in a series; but my goodness, I don't care how Jack had to buy new clothes, how he put his pants on one leg at a time, and how his muscles felt while doing it. I don't need to know that he put his belt on slowly or that he even put it on... i mean, who cares!!
I love backstory and description; but not on everything. I just need to know the sun rises; I don't need to know the colors at every minute, ya know??
Outside of the descriptive stuff. This was a good read.
Not enough depth to the characters; but I am sure we will learn more about Jack as time goes on. Just being in military service; doesn't make you a trained killer.
Why disappear??
Why no paper trail??
What did he do?? Surely not just an MP
Who is after him??
Is he off the net?? Rogue??
I've got questions and need answers. On to book 2.
This could have been 5 stars for a great story; but my goodness it was beyond descriptive.
I know it was a first book in a series; but my goodness, I don't care how Jack had to buy new clothes, how he put his pants on one leg at a time, and how his muscles felt while doing it. I don't need to know that he put his belt on slowly or that he even put it on... i mean, who cares!!
I love backstory and description; but not on everything. I just need to know the sun rises; I don't need to know the colors at every minute, ya know??
Outside of the descriptive stuff. This was a good read.
Not enough depth to the characters; but I am sure we will learn more about Jack as time goes on. Just being in military service; doesn't make you a trained killer.
Why disappear??
Why no paper trail??
What did he do?? Surely not just an MP
Who is after him??
Is he off the net?? Rogue??
I've got questions and need answers. On to book 2.
Not the best book I ever read, but definitely the first one of this kind. It is interesting to see everything through Jack Reacher's point a view, barely anything escapes his notice. I loved reading his thought processes; how he calculated everything to the second, how he saw what he had to do. The idea of the whole money fraud was very interesting.
What I had to get used to was reading how he killed all those people without regret, in such a cold-blooded way. I've seen enough action and war films to not be shocked by seeing people kill other people, hell, I played enough computer games where I did exactly the same. But reading it is a whole other level. It became much more real. Realising what humans are capable of is always frightening.
Some parts were hard to believe for me. For instance, how easily they let Jack in on the investigation. How quickly Roscoe, a cop, just got together with an ex-suspect. It didn't make sense to me, but luckily I was able to look past that after a while.
The writing style was not one I am particulary fond of. A lot of overly short sentences and sometimes a fact was repeated three times in three consequetive lines. When there was a 'long' sentence it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Still, I did enjoy reading this book and though I told myself not to, I feel kind of tempted to read the next one as well. But, reading all 15 (and counting)? That's a bit much.
Something that I did find quite funny, was how everything was described in every detail, how terrible murders and ways of torture became visible in your mind, but as soon as Reacher and Riscoe got it on, it was easily referred to as 'love-making' and then the matter was done with. Terrible mutilations are okay, but sex? Don't be so ridiculous!
What I had to get used to was reading how he killed all those people without regret, in such a cold-blooded way. I've seen enough action and war films to not be shocked by seeing people kill other people, hell, I played enough computer games where I did exactly the same. But reading it is a whole other level. It became much more real. Realising what humans are capable of is always frightening.
Some parts were hard to believe for me. For instance, how easily they let Jack in on the investigation. How quickly Roscoe, a cop, just got together with an ex-suspect. It didn't make sense to me, but luckily I was able to look past that after a while.
The writing style was not one I am particulary fond of. A lot of overly short sentences and sometimes a fact was repeated three times in three consequetive lines. When there was a 'long' sentence it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Still, I did enjoy reading this book and though I told myself not to, I feel kind of tempted to read the next one as well. But, reading all 15 (and counting)? That's a bit much.
Something that I did find quite funny, was how everything was described in every detail, how terrible murders and ways of torture became visible in your mind, but as soon as Reacher and Riscoe got it on, it was easily referred to as 'love-making' and then the matter was done with. Terrible mutilations are okay, but sex? Don't be so ridiculous!
adventurous
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
fast-paced
It's a fun kind of suspend disbelief book. Good read, but nothing very heady about it.