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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
GREAT thriller -- creepy and oddly prescient as it was written BEFORE 9/11.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
i enjoyed this, but it was not super full of investigating. it felt like a setup book. setting up for something coming in the future.
that being said.... HOLY SHIT.
this is like a pre 9/11 book, about the horrors of terrorism! because it was really creepy to hear him constantly talk about the world trade center attack, and not have it be about 9/11. i didnt even know there was a trade center attack before 9/11. to hear him talk about how it was almost the biggest act of terrorism in the us, and then to actually have it happen only 2 years later.... its eery.
this book set up some heavy foreshadowing to reality. like how my collage professor always told us, one of the biggest things we have to worry about is a hurricane hitting Louisiana, or a tornado tearing through Huston.
it was just really unnerving. good book. but unnerving.
that being said.... HOLY SHIT.
this is like a pre 9/11 book, about the horrors of terrorism! because it was really creepy to hear him constantly talk about the world trade center attack, and not have it be about 9/11. i didnt even know there was a trade center attack before 9/11. to hear him talk about how it was almost the biggest act of terrorism in the us, and then to actually have it happen only 2 years later.... its eery.
this book set up some heavy foreshadowing to reality. like how my collage professor always told us, one of the biggest things we have to worry about is a hurricane hitting Louisiana, or a tornado tearing through Huston.
it was just really unnerving. good book. but unnerving.
A well done international terrorist mystery. Not usual my cup of tea, but Nelson DeMille does a great job alternating the narrator from our detective protagonist to the terrorist on the hunt. A lot of military, technical aircraft, religious talk. But an enjoyable read - even if the ending felt slightly abrupt and incomplete.
Another book from the John Corey series, due to the brick and mortar book club to which I belong. (I don't pick them or the order in which they are read, I just read them.) I'm not sure what the antithesis of a thriller is, but I'm pretty sure that The Lion's Game fits the definition. The first two hundred pages and the last hundred would have made a perfectly good, much more streamlined novel, than the 707 page tome read here. I will likely continue the series, but only to read the brick and mortar club's books.
Not my favorite of DeMille's, and also not my favorite of his John Corey books. Still an engaging story, though, and kept my interest all the way through. I was a little put off but the whole romantic storyline... seemed a bit out of place and completely rushed to me.
Nelson DeMille seems to be a very detailed writer, from the 2 books of his I've read. This book had a very anticlimactic and disappointing ending, and certain parts seemed random and didn't fit too well. The John Corey character is brilliant and funny!
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
adventurous
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes