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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Long winding with multiple shifts un narratives. A simple premise twisting into full out potential catastrophe. Enjoyable yes but supreme eh
fast-paced
This book seemed to move at a much crisper pace than The Bourne Identity, that, or I just knew what to expect from this one after reading the first. While not as "action packed" as you'd think the Bourne series would be, it still had quite a bit more action and movement than the first book did. Lots of twists and turns made for a good, not great, read.
If you watched the movie, don't expect the book to be anything like it. I like the movie and I like the book, but I hate the movie as an adaptation from a book. I have never seen a movie from a book that was so very different.
I liked this book a lot better than the first one. It was longer than the first one but it involved less planning and fewer locations, so I was able to actually understand more of it. But the italics were actually REALLY annoying in this book, almost every time someone talks he italicizes something. And the ending where it should have ended was like 100 pages from the end of the book so I kept wondering what was going to happen after, and every time I thought it was the ending, I was further and further disappointed. There were three, if not four, times I thought I was at the ending but I wasn't. The summary on the back of the book makes you think the focus of the book is about the assassin double but it's about something more convoluted and extremely anti-climatic.
200 pages too long.
They say that it is very difficult to write characters that are smarter than you. This book is why. Most of the main characters in this are the tops of their fields. A couple run operations so dark, the President don’t know, or want to know, the details.
All of them are idiots in this book. This book is full of stupid decisions by people who are supposed to be ineffable. But let’s pretend they aren’t, for a moment. The book is still bad.
First, everything drags out. Things are repeated ad nauseam at every opportunity. Does something need to be explained to a new character? Well, get ready to read that entire explanation, even if we’ve already heard it. Even if we read the actual events being told. It’s exhausting.
Second, Marie is an emotional disaster, who isn’t correct about a single thing, ever (slight hyperbole, but not much). She goes from being the logical side of our main couple, to having the full emotional range of a 12 year old. Hysterical and screaming are her two states. Where’s the cold economist? Back in the previous book, I imagine.
I could keep listing problems with this book, but it’s not worth wasting even more time than I took to read it.
Easily the worst book I’ve read in the past two years.
They say that it is very difficult to write characters that are smarter than you. This book is why. Most of the main characters in this are the tops of their fields. A couple run operations so dark, the President don’t know, or want to know, the details.
All of them are idiots in this book. This book is full of stupid decisions by people who are supposed to be ineffable. But let’s pretend they aren’t, for a moment. The book is still bad.
First, everything drags out. Things are repeated ad nauseam at every opportunity. Does something need to be explained to a new character? Well, get ready to read that entire explanation, even if we’ve already heard it. Even if we read the actual events being told. It’s exhausting.
Second, Marie is an emotional disaster, who isn’t correct about a single thing, ever (slight hyperbole, but not much). She goes from being the logical side of our main couple, to having the full emotional range of a 12 year old. Hysterical and screaming are her two states. Where’s the cold economist? Back in the previous book, I imagine.
I could keep listing problems with this book, but it’s not worth wasting even more time than I took to read it.
Easily the worst book I’ve read in the past two years.