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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
medium-paced
The Kill Artist
The first genre to hook me into reading was espionage/thriller novels, I am well versed in Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, and Vince Flynn. As a kid, there was something magical about picking up a book that had as much action as a movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Yet after so many years, my interest faded away and I began to see many cliches in espionage novels. Then I met Daniel Silva and Gabriel Allon.
The greatest thing about this book is that the main character doesn’t kill a single person. In any Mitch Rapp novel, there will be a high body count and everything is black and white. Yet in the Kill Artist, the author shows the complexity between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are characters on both sides that are extremist and the main character is struggling with survivor’s guilt.
The plot sounds pretty generic, bad guy harms protagonist’s family and protagonist goes out of retirement to seek revenge. Yet the execution of this plot is amazing, the author avoids many silly cliches that are endemic to this genre. While the character development is not the greatest, it is much better than anything Cussler can put on paper. This was a quick read and I am excited to try a few more books in the world of Gabriel Allon.
The first genre to hook me into reading was espionage/thriller novels, I am well versed in Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, and Vince Flynn. As a kid, there was something magical about picking up a book that had as much action as a movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Yet after so many years, my interest faded away and I began to see many cliches in espionage novels. Then I met Daniel Silva and Gabriel Allon.
The greatest thing about this book is that the main character doesn’t kill a single person. In any Mitch Rapp novel, there will be a high body count and everything is black and white. Yet in the Kill Artist, the author shows the complexity between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are characters on both sides that are extremist and the main character is struggling with survivor’s guilt.
The plot sounds pretty generic, bad guy harms protagonist’s family and protagonist goes out of retirement to seek revenge. Yet the execution of this plot is amazing, the author avoids many silly cliches that are endemic to this genre. While the character development is not the greatest, it is much better than anything Cussler can put on paper. This was a quick read and I am excited to try a few more books in the world of Gabriel Allon.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Absolutely thought this would be way more art restored and way less agonizing detail… monotonous. The action scenes made up for the pacing lost throughout the rest of the book… so two stars. Maybe the characters grow in further installments of the series… but I’ll have to be really bored to pick up this author again.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated