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3.15 AVERAGE
3.15 AVERAGE
Thought that this book was enticing from the preview, but then was disappointed once I started reading this book.
The beginning was basically the ending of the story, but then there wasn't much in terms of action as all the characters were not harmed (it seemed too easy).
Was hoping for a twist at the end, but it never came.
The beginning was basically the ending of the story, but then there wasn't much in terms of action as all the characters were not harmed (it seemed too easy).
Was hoping for a twist at the end, but it never came.
Hard to keep the Russian characters apart otherwise it was an ok read.
Why do I keep reading these? They keep getting more formulaic and disjointed and repetitive. Higgins is clearly out of ideas and phoning this shit in.
Given the size of the cast of characters and their complicated history together, I probably should have started at #1 instead of #17, which I randomly grabbed at the library today. It flew past easily regardless, and I enjoyed that even the bad guys were plagued by other bad guys.
Another of Higgins' Sean Dillon adventures. Bad guys try to kill Dillon and his friends, but Dillon et. al. are better bad guys and prevail. Not one of Higgins' best novels, and even his best are not as good as some authors I enjoy (Stephen Hunter, for example, or Dean Koontz). I think this will be the last of Higgins' novels for me.
Pretty good. Probably would have enjoyed it more if I'd read the previous books in the series first.
Another of Higgins' Sean Dillon adventures. Bad guys try to kill Dillon and his friends, but Dillon et. al. are better bad guys and prevail. Not one of Higgins' best novels, and even his best are not as good as some authors I enjoy (Stephen Hunter, for example, or Dean Koontz). I think this will be the last of Higgins' novels for me.
Pretty good. Probably would have enjoyed it more if I'd read the previous books in the series first.
Not bad, though I never like starting a series in the middle (or with its most recent, as this is).
It started off with a bang, then had a couple of pages of genuinely clunky exposition, as people who'd known each other for years met and explained themselves purely for the reader's benefit. "Hello, John Doe, old friend and former foe I've known for umpty-ump years. Remember how we met, when all this stuff happened, and this, and this, that you couldn't possibly have forgotten? No, I haven't either. What's happening now?"
Once that (frankly sloppy) junk is out of the way, though, Higgins settles in and delivers a perfectly workmanlike thriller. I liked his Rashomon approach of telling about the various groups in the story, and again, he's scrupulously fair; the bad guys aren't just bad for the sake of it (they have their reasons), half the good guys used to be bad guys themselves, and it's clear that good and bad are concepts that can easily shift.
Clearly, I need to start this series at the beginning, too. This one was #17, so I have a lot of catching up to do...which I'm rather looking forward to.
It started off with a bang, then had a couple of pages of genuinely clunky exposition, as people who'd known each other for years met and explained themselves purely for the reader's benefit. "Hello, John Doe, old friend and former foe I've known for umpty-ump years. Remember how we met, when all this stuff happened, and this, and this, that you couldn't possibly have forgotten? No, I haven't either. What's happening now?"
Once that (frankly sloppy) junk is out of the way, though, Higgins settles in and delivers a perfectly workmanlike thriller. I liked his Rashomon approach of telling about the various groups in the story, and again, he's scrupulously fair; the bad guys aren't just bad for the sake of it (they have their reasons), half the good guys used to be bad guys themselves, and it's clear that good and bad are concepts that can easily shift.
Clearly, I need to start this series at the beginning, too. This one was #17, so I have a lot of catching up to do...which I'm rather looking forward to.