397 reviews for:

No Plan B

Lee Child, Andrew Child

3.56 AVERAGE

foxynz's review against another edition

3.0

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All good characters have a life span, and this felt like Reacher might be nearing the end of his. When I read the first in the series, I loved the laconic, tough, effective Reacher. While he was clever and efficient in this story, some of the magic was lacking. This might simply be that after 27 novels, the newness and excitement is gone, or it could be the subtle change in authorship. I liked the way the 4 plots came together in the end but I think the end could have been expanded slightly. I'll keep reading Reacher, but this one was a little flat for me.

ab_maclean's review against another edition

1.0

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It’s rare for me to write a one star review and I recognize that there are many fans of this series. But I found this story unnecessarily brutal, and lacking in any character development so it was difficult to feel any connection to the characters. It was written with short, choppy sentences with little flow. I powered through because I wanted to see all of the various mysteries wrapped up but in the end, I had to skim because I truly didn’t want to picture what was done to the albeit evil “bad guys” - just excessively grisly. After reading some other reviews, it’s possible that this wasn’t one of the better books in the series but I don’t have the stomach for reading another!

jhurl's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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In a tiny Colorado town, Reacher spots a murder that looked like a suicide.  That sends him on the case. Most of the people that get in the way or come after him are just put out of commission but several also die. The ex-wife of another victim helps him out and they drive across the country to a prison in Mississippi small town. Uncover a body part side business - their very progressive prison has a high mortality rate.  The first victim had spotted irregularities in the accounting when they also were going to use freeing an innocent man as cover to give one of their buddies a new identity.  Reacher gets there just in time to save the real innocent man and breaks him out of prison and he gets reunited with the son he never knew he had that had just escaped his foster home and traveled across the country to be there for the release.  Reacher of course makes some brilliant deductions with little evidence along the way. He also finds creative ways to get rid of the cronies that are trying to stop him from getting to the prison. But wait there is more, a whole subplot where a professional arsonist is after the body part sellers because his son died after a liver transplant (because of too many drugs by the time he was 22). And the good guys all live happily ever after and Reacher heads off into the sunset....

lilywill's review against another edition

4.0

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Typisch Reacher boek. Leest vlot. Vakantie lectuur.

jennareadsthings's review against another edition

3.0

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That was maybe too many plotlines

p0psicle's review

4.0

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mrstein's review against another edition

3.0

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Diverting. Audiobook for walks and gardening

roastedsalted's review

3.0

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Would have been 4 stars. Love Jack Reacher books but one page, page 339, is so silly and unnecessary that I’m taking off one star and you should maybe blame the editor who could have just omitted it. It’s not scandalous or wrong or ugly, it’s just stupid.

danimorrow's review against another edition

4.0

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Can’t beat a classic Jack Reacher. Jack witnesses a murder (shocking), then puts two and two together and takes out the bad guys. This time, the bad guys are running a for-profit prison, with a couple of not-so-nice side hustles.

oldgreyheron's review against another edition

2.0

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It seems that the Jack Reacher series is running out of steam. I found this latest to be tortuous to follow and tedious with some of the detail. When the intertwining stories finally converged the climax was less than convincing. I wonder how much influence Co-author Andrew Child is having on trying to keep the series going.