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The Sentinel by Lee Child, Andrew Child

2 reviews

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

2.5

This is such a bro book! It reminds me of a smaller scale Mission Impossible (at least for the first 60% or so, then the stakes get much larger in terms of the amount of people involved). I mostly read this because it was gifted to me, and this type of book is outside of my comfort zone. For what it is, it does it well, but it’s just not for me. It’s quite patriotic, and I will admit that once the stakes got bigger I rolled my eyes a bit (
I mean, the relevance of Russia hacking US elections isn’t really what I want to read about unless it’s non-fiction
), but I was entertained. Since this was written by men, it did fall into the trap of writing women…strangely (it was fine for the most part, but there were too many instances where a woman was described as “thin as a needle” or something along those lines).
I must admit, I was suspicious of Sarah, but I guess I was wrong. I also was not expecting the Nazis, and my impression from that was…wow, they are REALLY try to raise the stakes from both sides (at least they didn’t include China, thank god).
Overall, it is good for what it is, isn’t too problematic (mostly just the description of thinness of the women), but it just isn’t really my thing, so my enjoyment was a bit lackluster (I don’t particularly like reading fight or action scenes, and there’s a great deal in the book because that’s what this type of book is). I also don’t find it particularly it interesting to read about a protagonist that doesn’t make any mistakes (there is Sherlock Holmes that is an exception, but there’s more of a cleverness to the mystery than an emphasis on action like in this book). For action movie lovers, I would recommend this (it’s not too patriotic, so it doesn’t exactly scream “USA! USA!”, except for certain parts regarding the raised stakes (
when the context of the elections are introduced
).
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imogenlj's review against another edition

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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

3.5

A decent Reacher and this one has
Russian spies and Nazis,
for fun!
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