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A review by usbsticky
Final Target by John Gilstrap
3.0
Adventure action novel of a couple of private security guys/mercs dropped off in Mexico to recover an American who's been captured by a drug gang.
Spoilers below:
The writing is easy to read and follow and I got into the story right away. The plot is that the mission goes wrong, a extraction team has to be sent in and the home team has to figure out what went wrong.
The big problem for me was the way the book split into the different narratives: the initial rescue team, the extraction team and the home team. The transition between the narratives was too abrupt and it was annoying to follow the story of one team and then have to start from scratch into another story and then again into the third. I understand that that is the plot but there just wasn't enough meat in each story to make them so separate and it wasn't written in a way that the 3 narratives could be segued naturally into each other.
In the end, I thought the first narrative of the rescue mission was the most interesting and I liked the action at the end of this narrative. The extraction narrative was too detailed and could have been cut short without losing the story, in fact I thought this whole part was unnecessary and took away from the book. The home team narrative was ok as it explained the story. The way it was written, each of the narratives could have been read as a novella itself.
So overall, it was a good plot but poorly choreographed. I liked the book but if others in the series are all like this, I wouldn't read them; there are plenty of other better books.
I got this book as a free ARC.
Spoilers below:
The writing is easy to read and follow and I got into the story right away. The plot is that the mission goes wrong, a extraction team has to be sent in and the home team has to figure out what went wrong.
The big problem for me was the way the book split into the different narratives: the initial rescue team, the extraction team and the home team. The transition between the narratives was too abrupt and it was annoying to follow the story of one team and then have to start from scratch into another story and then again into the third. I understand that that is the plot but there just wasn't enough meat in each story to make them so separate and it wasn't written in a way that the 3 narratives could be segued naturally into each other.
In the end, I thought the first narrative of the rescue mission was the most interesting and I liked the action at the end of this narrative. The extraction narrative was too detailed and could have been cut short without losing the story, in fact I thought this whole part was unnecessary and took away from the book. The home team narrative was ok as it explained the story. The way it was written, each of the narratives could have been read as a novella itself.
So overall, it was a good plot but poorly choreographed. I liked the book but if others in the series are all like this, I wouldn't read them; there are plenty of other better books.
I got this book as a free ARC.