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A review by cgcang
Nowhere To Run by C.J. Box
5.0
I'm afraid 2020 is going to be the year of C.J. Box for me.
I had read and reviewed his first Joe Pickett book, Open Season, back in May last year. It took me 3 months to move on to Savage Run and another 4 months before I read Winterkill.
It went downhill from there and here we are.
Nowhere To Run is a very solid entry. It's neatly written. It has this trademark rural, natural feel that Pickett novels give off and I'm a sucker for that. The pacing is a bit slower than Below Zero which isn't a bad thing because Below Zero, despite the fast-paced action, wasn't Box's strongest.
Nowhere To Run however, has some real bite. It has tension and violence, character development, thrilling chase sequences and quite unexpectedly, it turns out the main themes of the book were societal and moral all along, which means good writing on C.J. Box's part.
Good writing, at the end of the day, is what we're all looking for.
I had read and reviewed his first Joe Pickett book, Open Season, back in May last year. It took me 3 months to move on to Savage Run and another 4 months before I read Winterkill.
It went downhill from there and here we are.
Nowhere To Run is a very solid entry. It's neatly written. It has this trademark rural, natural feel that Pickett novels give off and I'm a sucker for that. The pacing is a bit slower than Below Zero which isn't a bad thing because Below Zero, despite the fast-paced action, wasn't Box's strongest.
Nowhere To Run however, has some real bite. It has tension and violence, character development, thrilling chase sequences and quite unexpectedly, it turns out the main themes of the book were societal and moral all along, which means good writing on C.J. Box's part.
Good writing, at the end of the day, is what we're all looking for.