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A review by awblass
The Athena Project by Brad Thor
1.0
I had never read a Brad Thor book before this one and I wish to never read one again. The only reasons why I gave The Athena Project a chance was because of the summary and this quote from Aristotle: "We make war so that we may live in peace."
An all-female team called the Athena Project include four women who you don't need to know about because they all basically have the same personality and character. They are seemingly referred to by their first and last names at random. It did not help at all when they were mentioned in the same paragraph which confused me even more. Anyway, the women are sent on a mission to track down an arms dealer who had supplied explosives to a terrorist attack which killed more than twenty Americans in Rome. However, there is more to the story than meets the eye as they discover a weapon made during World War II by the Nazis that in the wrong hands could bring widespread terror and destruction on the governments of the world.
The writing style made it very easy to read which I am thankful for. There was plenty of action also but if you don't have a plausible story to go with all that action then it's just meaningless. The plot suffered the most without any strong characters to support it as the Nazi fax machine, the weapon of mass destruction mentioned above, made me question more than once if this book was based on fiction or reality (I know that the author put a note in the beginning saying how it's based off of real science but what I want to know is how much of it is real science). A couple of stories from different perspectives, other than the four women on the Athena Project, made me think that they were pointless only to have them connect somehow to the main plot. But it would have been nice if we had known how they fit into the book in the first place instead of leaving us readers in the dark. Adding to the fact that the end felt very rushed and I wondered why I even started this book to begin with. Then I thought of the witty one-liners which kept my attention in the beginning but remembered that after a while they started to become cheesy, boring, and, if I might add, very dirty.
All in all, if you like thrillers with a lot of action but not enough story than this book is for you.
An all-female team called the Athena Project include four women who you don't need to know about because they all basically have the same personality and character. They are seemingly referred to by their first and last names at random. It did not help at all when they were mentioned in the same paragraph which confused me even more. Anyway, the women are sent on a mission to track down an arms dealer who had supplied explosives to a terrorist attack which killed more than twenty Americans in Rome. However, there is more to the story than meets the eye as they discover a weapon made during World War II by the Nazis that in the wrong hands could bring widespread terror and destruction on the governments of the world.
The writing style made it very easy to read which I am thankful for. There was plenty of action also but if you don't have a plausible story to go with all that action then it's just meaningless. The plot suffered the most without any strong characters to support it as the Nazi fax machine, the weapon of mass destruction mentioned above, made me question more than once if this book was based on fiction or reality (I know that the author put a note in the beginning saying how it's based off of real science but what I want to know is how much of it is real science). A couple of stories from different perspectives, other than the four women on the Athena Project, made me think that they were pointless only to have them connect somehow to the main plot. But it would have been nice if we had known how they fit into the book in the first place instead of leaving us readers in the dark. Adding to the fact that the end felt very rushed and I wondered why I even started this book to begin with. Then I thought of the witty one-liners which kept my attention in the beginning but remembered that after a while they started to become cheesy, boring, and, if I might add, very dirty.
All in all, if you like thrillers with a lot of action but not enough story than this book is for you.