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A review by avalanti
The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
3.0
This was the only Child novel I;d read, introduced to it as an excerpt an English Literature class, where the concept intrigued me.
Reacher is exactly as you would imagine the hero in this kind of novel to be, though in this story, his military background adds foundation that is absolutely necessary, and as I enjoyed it enough to plan on reading more of his books, I hope this is consistent through all of them.
This next part will have an air of 'spoilers' to it, but doesn't actually spoil any of the main plot of the book.
I did really enjoy this book - there was enough suspense to maintain my want to know more, and the reveal was satisfying - until there was needless romance that was completely unsupported by the rest of the novel. The opening scene is one of him with a woman, which was fine and added good foundation to why Reacher is where he needs to be for the story takes place, but the section at the end seemed to come out of nowhere, and felt thrown in to make Reacher seem more of a ladies man - despite the more father-ish figure vibes I got from him. Very James Bond, though I don't get as much of the charm within Reacher's personality, so even if you enjoy that sort of thing, I personally don't think it worked.
Aside from that (which is the reason it was knocked to four stars and not five) I did really enjoy this, and I think it made good commentary about an issue I didn't know of before, so for me that's a win, and as I've said - I liked it enough to purchase another one.
Reacher is exactly as you would imagine the hero in this kind of novel to be, though in this story, his military background adds foundation that is absolutely necessary, and as I enjoyed it enough to plan on reading more of his books, I hope this is consistent through all of them.
This next part will have an air of 'spoilers' to it, but doesn't actually spoil any of the main plot of the book.
I did really enjoy this book - there was enough suspense to maintain my want to know more, and the reveal was satisfying - until there was needless romance that was completely unsupported by the rest of the novel. The opening scene is one of him with a woman, which was fine and added good foundation to why Reacher is where he needs to be for the story takes place, but the section at the end seemed to come out of nowhere, and felt thrown in to make Reacher seem more of a ladies man - despite the more father-ish figure vibes I got from him. Very James Bond, though I don't get as much of the charm within Reacher's personality, so even if you enjoy that sort of thing, I personally don't think it worked.
Aside from that (which is the reason it was knocked to four stars and not five) I did really enjoy this, and I think it made good commentary about an issue I didn't know of before, so for me that's a win, and as I've said - I liked it enough to purchase another one.