A review by etccarms
The Payback by Simon Kernick

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

It was very fast paced, which I normally love, but for this book the ending came too quick for the build up. It felt like 60% build up, where the actual plot has yet to start, and then 40% of the plot, where everything goes in a straight line without anythung that throws the main characters off of their path completely. Another issue I had was that the Milne changed his mind about what he was doing very suddenly, and it made me stop reading for awhile. Later when the 'plot-twist' happened, it also made me want to stop reading since it felt very unneeded. A smaller issue was that alot of stereotypes were used in the book, men calling women whores, the assisn being russian, etc. Aside from these issues, it was a good quick book with morally grey characters.