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snowy_b 's review for:
Nothing to Lose
by Lee Child
The premise of this is interesting- Reacher's unstoppable force meets a town's immovable object (aka someone says no to him for the first time since he left the Army).
Some of it I liked- the missing men, the mysterious factory, the plane that only flies at night. Reacher coming across a dead guy in the bush between towns and performing an autopsy in the pitch black, by touch is crazy! All of the employees of the plant getting mysteriously sick and you think it's from the degreaser but really it's radiation sickness?!?! Fantastic twist!
There were definitely interesting elements that could have been more explored! Veterans being abandoned by their government, especially after a war wound, and Reacher's own experience with that. The guy that runs the town is the town's only preacher and we never ever see him give a sermon! Like he's running a doomsday cult to the scale of a whole town and we never hear him talk to his constituents! How has he convinced them so thoroughly of his point of view? He must be the most charismatic, fearsome man we've met so far! But instead he's just sort of this guy who keeps slapping Reacher on the wrist for coming back to the town for the millionth time.
Vaughan I feel could have had to much more to do. Instead she just sort of oscillated between wanting to have sex with Reacher and feeling guilty about having sex with Reacher because of her comatose veteran husband. She was technically a cop but that didn't really factor into her storyline at all. She could have been a law-abiding nurse with the night shift for all the difference that made. Justice for Vaughan! (also I was prepared to swear on my mother that her first name had been introduced either as Laura or Lauren but I guess that was me hallucinating more depth to a female character).
Overall quite a similar premise/feel to Killing Floor with Roscoe. I rated Killing Floor 3.75 when I first read it, but I think that was an inflated rating because I didn't know what Reacher stories could be. And now I do. So I'm not all that impressed with this one. 3 stars because it was a readable story but nothing special. A strange mix of too many elements overcomplicating the book, but also been underexplored such that you only know the bare minimum about all of them. I know you can do better Lee Child!
Some of it I liked- the missing men, the mysterious factory, the plane that only flies at night. Reacher coming across a dead guy in the bush between towns and performing an autopsy in the pitch black, by touch is crazy! All of the employees of the plant getting mysteriously sick and you think it's from the degreaser but really it's radiation sickness?!?! Fantastic twist!
There were definitely interesting elements that could have been more explored! Veterans being abandoned by their government, especially after a war wound, and Reacher's own experience with that. The guy that runs the town is the town's only preacher and we never ever see him give a sermon! Like he's running a doomsday cult to the scale of a whole town and we never hear him talk to his constituents! How has he convinced them so thoroughly of his point of view? He must be the most charismatic, fearsome man we've met so far! But instead he's just sort of this guy who keeps slapping Reacher on the wrist for coming back to the town for the millionth time.
Vaughan I feel could have had to much more to do. Instead she just sort of oscillated between wanting to have sex with Reacher and feeling guilty about having sex with Reacher because of her comatose veteran husband. She was technically a cop but that didn't really factor into her storyline at all. She could have been a law-abiding nurse with the night shift for all the difference that made. Justice for Vaughan! (also I was prepared to swear on my mother that her first name had been introduced either as Laura or Lauren but I guess that was me hallucinating more depth to a female character).
Overall quite a similar premise/feel to Killing Floor with Roscoe. I rated Killing Floor 3.75 when I first read it, but I think that was an inflated rating because I didn't know what Reacher stories could be. And now I do. So I'm not all that impressed with this one. 3 stars because it was a readable story but nothing special. A strange mix of too many elements overcomplicating the book, but also been underexplored such that you only know the bare minimum about all of them. I know you can do better Lee Child!