armchair_vibes 's review for:

The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

2.0

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DNF. So disappointed. The bourne identity was great. The sequel is not. It starts off with a decent premise. A copy cat bourne using his legendary status killing high profile government officials in china. First 200 pages are good. Got me interested. Then it becomes a bloated mess. Marie's character is ruined and her chapters are waste of time that have barely any impact on the main plot. She fakes illness and convinces a top government doctor she is dying. That was a stretch, then she evades capture several times in the streets through farcical scenes. She almost gets raped again which was so unnecessary. So much is repeated from the first book. Lots of boring dialogue. Smart characters become stupid. In one scene bourne beats up an old man that he thought was the assassin in a hotel room. Then goes barging into other rooms pretending to be drunk where some people getting high tell him to stop drinking and get high instead. WTF! Half decent story ruined. Could have chopped 300 plus pages out of this story and it would have been so much better. I knew that events in the first book would not be concluded until the third book but basically the sequel is filler. Now I dont care and probably wont read the third.