daphsbookshelf 's review for:

The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper

2.0

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Alright, so I have mixed feelings about this. First, I think the idea of a secret society in Washington like the Hellfire Club is fantastic. It's one of the ideas featured most steadily in one of my favorite book series, the Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter. However. It takes so long to get to the "thriller" part of the novel; instead, I feel like we're wandering around Washington meeting people like LBJ, the Kennedys, and Eisenhower just because Tapper would like to meet those people. Also, I was very much not into reading through party after party Charlie ends up going to; we get the idea of how sleazy Washington is from just one. The main character is also kind of stereotypical (Charlie is a stand up do gooder, naive and innocent) and the writing tells rather than shows. I think the most redeeming part of the book is its action-packed ending, where some details from earlier come back again in a way that's useful and satisfying, and the character Isiah Street. He's cool. The rest of this book...not so much.