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A review by krisrid
The Athena Project by Brad Thor
4.0
If you like action/political/thriller stories AND you're always on the lookout for strong female characters this is a book for you!
The book is about a Delta special forces team who goes to the super dangerous places, and completes the impossible missions that nobody else can do . . . oh, and the team is ALL WOMEN!
The story is exciting and fast-paced, the locations and the activities the team pulls off are very clever and engaging, and while the four women's characters aren't fleshed out enough to really make them fully individual - they sort of come across as almost interchangeable - the author does include lots of the gallows humour that tends to go along with people doing the kind of ultra-dangerous missions these women do and that makes the story even more enjoyable.
The plot - which I won't spoil - is a combination of arms dealers, the U.S. government's bad behaviour secret actitivies, Nazis, and experimental technologies [oh, and we're told at the beginning of the book that all the technologies talked about in the story are real which gave the story and extra twist of interesting] combined with kick-ass, super-impressive chicks as secret agents. It's a fast, fun really exciting read, and I enjoyed it a lot!
The book is about a Delta special forces team who goes to the super dangerous places, and completes the impossible missions that nobody else can do . . . oh, and the team is ALL WOMEN!
The story is exciting and fast-paced, the locations and the activities the team pulls off are very clever and engaging, and while the four women's characters aren't fleshed out enough to really make them fully individual - they sort of come across as almost interchangeable - the author does include lots of the gallows humour that tends to go along with people doing the kind of ultra-dangerous missions these women do and that makes the story even more enjoyable.
The plot - which I won't spoil - is a combination of arms dealers, the U.S. government's bad behaviour secret actitivies, Nazis, and experimental technologies [oh, and we're told at the beginning of the book that all the technologies talked about in the story are real which gave the story and extra twist of interesting] combined with kick-ass, super-impressive chicks as secret agents. It's a fast, fun really exciting read, and I enjoyed it a lot!