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A review by thereadingwren
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly
4.0
4/5
This was my first introduction to Matthew Reilly as well as the Scarecrow novels. Reilly is my mother’s favourite author so I’d thought I’d give it a try.
Turns out, it’s awesome!
I didn’t think military type novels would be for me but damn I was wrong. This was amazing and it wasn’t full of stereotypical beef-cake dumb soldiers.
Scarecrow was an awesome leader and I loved that he didn’t get mean or violent with his team when they doubt him. I adore Mother, she is so badass and I can’t wait to read more about her. The relationship between Mother and Scarecrow is one of my favourite things to read about : true friendship and found family. They never doubt one another, they would die for each other, and they will always have each other’s backs. It’s beautiful.
This book was gory in all the right ways and the action was never over described. The twists were really well done and everything tied back in to everything.
Sure, Scarecrow is very much a lucky hero and just happens to know a lot about specific things that get him out of trouble but I don’t mind it.
As a plus this novel gave me so many Stargate Atlantis feels!!!!!
This was my first introduction to Matthew Reilly as well as the Scarecrow novels. Reilly is my mother’s favourite author so I’d thought I’d give it a try.
Turns out, it’s awesome!
I didn’t think military type novels would be for me but damn I was wrong. This was amazing and it wasn’t full of stereotypical beef-cake dumb soldiers.
Scarecrow was an awesome leader and I loved that he didn’t get mean or violent with his team when they doubt him. I adore Mother, she is so badass and I can’t wait to read more about her. The relationship between Mother and Scarecrow is one of my favourite things to read about : true friendship and found family. They never doubt one another, they would die for each other, and they will always have each other’s backs. It’s beautiful.
This book was gory in all the right ways and the action was never over described. The twists were really well done and everything tied back in to everything.
Sure, Scarecrow is very much a lucky hero and just happens to know a lot about specific things that get him out of trouble but I don’t mind it.
As a plus this novel gave me so many Stargate Atlantis feels!!!!!