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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
I had low expectations of the Jack Reacher books but I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. No literary greatness or anything but entertaining.
4 Stars
61 Hours (Jack Reacher Book #14) by Lee Child.
2021 reading challenge- review to come.
61 Hours (Jack Reacher Book #14) by Lee Child.
2021 reading challenge- review to come.
I'm a Jack Reacher fan, but this one was mediocre for me. I predicted the plot, but maybe it's because I've read so many of Lee Child's books. The setting was vivid, the characters good, but it didn't pop like I'd like. Not much of a romantic interest in this one, either. Just a touch of it, and it was per phone conversation, so nothing to write home about. Yes, I'd recommend it is a Lee Child fan, but it's not the one to start with if you're trying to decide whether to read him.
A clever thriller. I'm late to join the Reacher series. Now I want to read them all. Held my attention from start to finish with the seriously ticking clock.
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Yeah, it probably seemed a good idea on paper (ho-ho!), doing the story as a constant countdown to - something. An event. But...it had better be spectacular, amazing, amazingly, earth-shatteringly amazing when you get to zero hour, don't you think? Not, "erm, hang on, was that what we were waiting for?"
Then you start thinking - does Jack Reacher ever change his underwear?! Ever? He has no bags, no luggage at all, that is mentioned several times each book. He does (in some of the books after this one) mention buying underwear, specifically. Dumping his old stuff in the trash can, as you know. But here - phew! And he's stuck somewhere in the snow! No way out. And he's a guest in someone's house part the time - double phew!! No one says anything though. Maybe they don't dare: "Oi! Reacher! You're rather ripe this morning, don't you think?" And that's the last we hear of them.
The rigid adherence to a mechanical style, is getting a bit wearing. It may well be a style he has found works for him, as a writer I mean, certainly it works for him as a seller of books. Maybe it makes knocking off a Reacher book every year a whole lot less of a chore. Or maybe it's a style that covers his limits as a writer. Like the whole thing could be fed into a computer, and a button pressed. Anyway, it needs looking at.
Otherwise, it's good, not great. Sort of in the middle.
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Then you start thinking - does Jack Reacher ever change his underwear?! Ever? He has no bags, no luggage at all, that is mentioned several times each book. He does (in some of the books after this one) mention buying underwear, specifically. Dumping his old stuff in the trash can, as you know. But here - phew! And he's stuck somewhere in the snow! No way out. And he's a guest in someone's house part the time - double phew!! No one says anything though. Maybe they don't dare: "Oi! Reacher! You're rather ripe this morning, don't you think?" And that's the last we hear of them.
The rigid adherence to a mechanical style, is getting a bit wearing. It may well be a style he has found works for him, as a writer I mean, certainly it works for him as a seller of books. Maybe it makes knocking off a Reacher book every year a whole lot less of a chore. Or maybe it's a style that covers his limits as a writer. Like the whole thing could be fed into a computer, and a button pressed. Anyway, it needs looking at.
Otherwise, it's good, not great. Sort of in the middle.
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The culprit (for lack of a better term) was not very hard to guess.
Just checked, there is a book 15. The end was terrifying.
AMANDAAA!!!!
You'll know what I'm talking about when you read it.
Just checked, there is a book 15. The end was terrifying.
AMANDAAA!!!!
You'll know what I'm talking about when you read it.
This is the 1st Lee Child novel I've read, and although I did enjoy it and would probably read some more of his books, I was disappointed in knowing who the bad guy was very early on. I don't know what it was that gave it away so much, it was possibly a few things altogether that initially made me suspicious and nothing happening to prove me wrong as the story grew. At 1 time I even yelled at the book "just get rid of him now you idiot it's obvious it's him!" Ah well I'll get round to reading the series and see if I'm clever enough to work out the bad guy in those!