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A review by jaco_minnaar
A Good Day to Die by Simon Kernick
2.0
I did not read the first book in the series. If I had, it might have changed my opinion. As it stands though, these are my thoughts.
There is way too much going on in this story for it's relatively short length. There's no time to really build suspense, as plot points are explained almost as soon as they come up.
The story itself strongly reminds me of the first season of True Detective. The difference, however, is that TD built its suspense and mystery from the beginning, and it would have served this story well if it had done something similar. The whole conspiracy paedophile ring is only revealed in the latter half of the book, with the whole revenge thing taking the main stage for most of the story. This is a major oversight and a missed opportunity to have created some real suspense.
All in all, not a bad read, just rather disappointing. I have to give the author props for closing up all the plot points rather nicely, with no real questions going unanswered by the end.
There is way too much going on in this story for it's relatively short length. There's no time to really build suspense, as plot points are explained almost as soon as they come up.
The story itself strongly reminds me of the first season of True Detective. The difference, however, is that TD built its suspense and mystery from the beginning, and it would have served this story well if it had done something similar. The whole conspiracy paedophile ring is only revealed in the latter half of the book, with the whole revenge thing taking the main stage for most of the story. This is a major oversight and a missed opportunity to have created some real suspense.
All in all, not a bad read, just rather disappointing. I have to give the author props for closing up all the plot points rather nicely, with no real questions going unanswered by the end.