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nadia_ligda 's review for:
The Spy Coast
by Tess Gerritsen
Comparisons with other popular authors of the "light" spy thriller genre are inevitable, especially R Osman and his Thursday Murder Club series, which features one ex spy but a group of retirees nevertheless that solve murders. Here we have a quintet of ex CIA agents retired in rural Maine that, after years of inaction, are caught in a murderous web of international criminals. With direct links to a past case for one of them, they find themselves once again, and not so reluctantly, involved in a chase of the bad guys across 3 continents and back to Maine ..... And here the similarities with other book series kind of end ....
R Osman's narrative is basically satirical when it comes to the crime plots, choosing to highlight the real aspects and vulnerabilities of old age. M Herron thrives in his gritty and no nonsense "boozers and losers" characters. C Pavone uses real life situations to drive the "spy action" balancing very effectively the human ordinary relationships that his characters find themselves in.
The Spy Coast felt heavy and lacking any sense of humour or irony that ultimately made it repetitive and boring. The writing, for me was also a bit naive and in need of a better editor .... I lost count of the times the main character, Maggie, told us that she is defending her country and the world from the bad guys or how handsome and fit she and her ex-spy friends are, even in their old age .... I did it finish it and for a brief moment I thought that the end would have more of a twist than it actually has, but I think I will give the rest of the books in the series a miss .... 2 1/2 stars just for not abandoning it mid-way.
R Osman's narrative is basically satirical when it comes to the crime plots, choosing to highlight the real aspects and vulnerabilities of old age. M Herron thrives in his gritty and no nonsense "boozers and losers" characters. C Pavone uses real life situations to drive the "spy action" balancing very effectively the human ordinary relationships that his characters find themselves in.
The Spy Coast felt heavy and lacking any sense of humour or irony that ultimately made it repetitive and boring. The writing, for me was also a bit naive and in need of a better editor .... I lost count of the times the main character, Maggie, told us that she is defending her country and the world from the bad guys or how handsome and fit she and her ex-spy friends are, even in their old age .... I did it finish it and for a brief moment I thought that the end would have more of a twist than it actually has, but I think I will give the rest of the books in the series a miss .... 2 1/2 stars just for not abandoning it mid-way.