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A review by dawn_marie
Hard Road by J.B. Turner
1.0
Similar to David Baldacci’s Will Robie or Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series (two series that I very much enjoy reading), J.D. Turner’s Hard Road is the story of Jon Reznick, an operative in a über secret government organization whose missions never goes as planned.
In Mr. Turner’s book, Reznick quickly realizes that the man the U.S. government wanted him to assassinate is not who the government claims him to be; and that failing to assassinate that man results in severe consequences, including the kid napping of Reznick’s daughter by an unknown third party.
I should have enjoyed Hard Road; I did not. The biggest failure for me was Mr. Turner’s writing style, which I found to be flat and dull. The simplistic writing style did not allow for the building of suspension or tension; and the pacing extremely uneven. I also found the repetition of certain phrases (“not one word” or “the kid”) to be highly annoying. The characters were uninteresting - worse, they were clichéd, and I found that I really didn’t care what happened to them.
In short, the idea of Hard Road is good, it fails in the execution.
In Mr. Turner’s book, Reznick quickly realizes that the man the U.S. government wanted him to assassinate is not who the government claims him to be; and that failing to assassinate that man results in severe consequences, including the kid napping of Reznick’s daughter by an unknown third party.
I should have enjoyed Hard Road; I did not. The biggest failure for me was Mr. Turner’s writing style, which I found to be flat and dull. The simplistic writing style did not allow for the building of suspension or tension; and the pacing extremely uneven. I also found the repetition of certain phrases (“not one word” or “the kid”) to be highly annoying. The characters were uninteresting - worse, they were clichéd, and I found that I really didn’t care what happened to them.
In short, the idea of Hard Road is good, it fails in the execution.