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one4_thebooks 's review for:
The Hellfire Club
by Jake Tapper
I won a copy of this in a Goodreads giveaway.
What did I think?
It was fine. Only fine.
Parts of it were fun, and there is something to be said for Tapper's historical research to make the book feel somewhat authentic. (I guess I don't know for sure, I certainly wasn't around in the 1950s.)
But then right after one of those authentic-seeming moments, a character would do something like worry about if they were using the "correct gender pronoun" for someone. (This actually happened.)
This certainly wouldn't have been on anyone's mind in the 1950s, and it was just such a glaring hole through which you could almost see the late 2010s waving and yelling 'HELLO!'
There was a tighter and more suspenseful story in here than the one that was told, and I almost had to fight as the reader to make it the focus while Tapper spent chapters on wild horses and their migration patterns...or something like that.
Including real life people into a fictional world was interesting, especially with Sen. McCarthy and Roy Cohn, since our current White House occupant has a Cohn poster up in his bedroom.
All in all, this really isn't a bad book. Especially by comparison to some real stinkers I've read in this genre before. So this one is fun if you're willing to turn off your brain a bit.
What did I think?
It was fine. Only fine.
Parts of it were fun, and there is something to be said for Tapper's historical research to make the book feel somewhat authentic. (I guess I don't know for sure, I certainly wasn't around in the 1950s.)
But then right after one of those authentic-seeming moments, a character would do something like worry about if they were using the "correct gender pronoun" for someone. (This actually happened.)
This certainly wouldn't have been on anyone's mind in the 1950s, and it was just such a glaring hole through which you could almost see the late 2010s waving and yelling 'HELLO!'
There was a tighter and more suspenseful story in here than the one that was told, and I almost had to fight as the reader to make it the focus while Tapper spent chapters on wild horses and their migration patterns...or something like that.
Including real life people into a fictional world was interesting, especially with Sen. McCarthy and Roy Cohn, since our current White House occupant has a Cohn poster up in his bedroom.
All in all, this really isn't a bad book. Especially by comparison to some real stinkers I've read in this genre before. So this one is fun if you're willing to turn off your brain a bit.