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Force of Nature
by Jane Harper
I liked the narration style, - The present search of Alice and the previous week's story of the women's trek. The Australian bushlands were described beautifully.
Alice and her daughter were both unlikeable. I was thinking why bother searching for her at all.
Detective Carmen was another irritating character. When she was grilling her fellow officer, Falk about his private life (which had nothing to do with the official investigation), I wanted Falk to tell her to keep her busy nose in her own business.
The repetition of the phrase "Get the contracts " was grating. We understand how important getting the contracts was, it did not have to be drilled through.
I had a problem with the corporate retreat setup. I am curious if Jane Harper knows how a corporate environment works. To start with, the team selected for the 'Team building' - the criteria was explained but that didn't explain why a data entry operator who worked in the basement was included. The top honchos never had any interaction with Beth, then why was she part of the 'Team building'.
The trek was not organized well and it was a in extreme weather conditions. No adventure club lets the participants on their own, without a properly marked track and without proper communication channels. Here they were not even given satellite phones. The mobile phones were not allowed. Though there was no signal, they could have at least taken pictures of the beautiful trek path.
They could have carried pre-cooked canned food instead of carrying gas stove, canister, raw materials like rice, ham and expecting them to start a fire a cook.
In these modern times how likely is it for someone to get lost with all grocery available and no phone?
As mentioned in the book, if the intention to see how they survive together as a team (to promote team building) they could have asked them to hunt for food instead of providing groceries and stove.
If I was not nit picking on finer details, I would have enjoyed the book. I might read her other book "Dry", as I liked the writing.
Alice and her daughter were both unlikeable. I was thinking why bother searching for her at all.
Detective Carmen was another irritating character. When she was grilling her fellow officer, Falk about his private life (which had nothing to do with the official investigation), I wanted Falk to tell her to keep her busy nose in her own business.
The repetition of the phrase "Get the contracts " was grating. We understand how important getting the contracts was, it did not have to be drilled through.
I had a problem with the corporate retreat setup. I am curious if Jane Harper knows how a corporate environment works. To start with, the team selected for the 'Team building' - the criteria was explained but that didn't explain why a data entry operator who worked in the basement was included. The top honchos never had any interaction with Beth, then why was she part of the 'Team building'.
The trek was not organized well and it was a in extreme weather conditions. No adventure club lets the participants on their own, without a properly marked track and without proper communication channels. Here they were not even given satellite phones. The mobile phones were not allowed. Though there was no signal, they could have at least taken pictures of the beautiful trek path.
They could have carried pre-cooked canned food instead of carrying gas stove, canister, raw materials like rice, ham and expecting them to start a fire a cook.
In these modern times how likely is it for someone to get lost with all grocery available and no phone?
As mentioned in the book, if the intention to see how they survive together as a team (to promote team building) they could have asked them to hunt for food instead of providing groceries and stove.
If I was not nit picking on finer details, I would have enjoyed the book. I might read her other book "Dry", as I liked the writing.