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A review by rochellehickey
Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
3.0
Gideon’s Sword tells the story of Gideon Crew, who seeks and gets vengeance on the man who framed and had his father killed. Impressed with Gideon’s ability to sleuth his father’s betrayer, Glinn of the EES persuasively hires Gideon to accept a dangerous job involving scientific secrets, lies, and an assassin in waiting.
With very short chapters and action at almost every turn, I breezed through this book. I could easily read this at the beach or on an airplane where I didn’t have to give 100% attention to it in order to follow what was happening.
It was entertaining reading how Gideon would get his way into and out of situations. Sometimes it would seem way too easy getting information from people. I doubt many people would give up information so easily just talking to a stranger and not think the probing questions were suspect. Other times, Gideon had Lady Luck on his side as he probably should have died many times.
Multiple times Gideon’s past as a museum thief was brought up. His skills as a thief, most important being easily getting in and out of places, came in handy throughout the book. I would have loved to have heard about what he stole or a situation he got in, even a quick one sentence explanation, but it was quickly dismissed with “I don’t do that anymore”. Maybe in one of the other books in the series I’ll get to read about his past museum shenanigans.
Gideon’s relationship with Orchid seemed forced in the romantic department. Using her as a cover worked perfectly fine, but the attachment he felt and the way she would get mad about him about lying and wanting to help him because he was in trouble seemed too much a stretch. They had only just met, and he had hired her to play a part.
All in all, a fun read.
With very short chapters and action at almost every turn, I breezed through this book. I could easily read this at the beach or on an airplane where I didn’t have to give 100% attention to it in order to follow what was happening.
It was entertaining reading how Gideon would get his way into and out of situations. Sometimes it would seem way too easy getting information from people. I doubt many people would give up information so easily just talking to a stranger and not think the probing questions were suspect. Other times, Gideon had Lady Luck on his side as he probably should have died many times.
Multiple times Gideon’s past as a museum thief was brought up. His skills as a thief, most important being easily getting in and out of places, came in handy throughout the book. I would have loved to have heard about what he stole or a situation he got in, even a quick one sentence explanation, but it was quickly dismissed with “I don’t do that anymore”. Maybe in one of the other books in the series I’ll get to read about his past museum shenanigans.
Gideon’s relationship with Orchid seemed forced in the romantic department. Using her as a cover worked perfectly fine, but the attachment he felt and the way she would get mad about him about lying and wanting to help him because he was in trouble seemed too much a stretch. They had only just met, and he had hired her to play a part.
All in all, a fun read.