A review by simonbrayworth
Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5) by Lee Child

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I've read a number of the Reacher novels and always enjoyed them. However, Echo Burning was a slog to finish. Nothing happens for a lot of the book. Much of the action we expect is not there, and until page 150, I wondered what it was even about. At this point it did pick up for a few hundered pages but then the last  hundred fell flat again, the "twist" I saw a mile off and so the dragging out of the reveal was wasted. I did finish it, so it can't have been all bad, and Reacher remains one of my favourite fictional characters.