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A review by fabilous_books
Killing Floor by Lee Child
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0
Watched this series last weekend and decided to pick up the book. Immensely enjoyed the TV show and I did watch the two movies with Tom Cruise but I found them a bit boring.
The plot is extremely complex and quite intelligent. A lot of explaining an exposition and description needed in order to flesh out the plot. I have a problem with description in general, I find heavy wordy description to be distracting and boring. So at times I did felt bored but it started out really good, it was fast paced and intriguing and everything was so mysterious and I really wanted to find out more. But half way through the plot it started to get a bit dense and wordy. I didn’t really like the ending. The conclusion of the whole operation was really good but I didn’t like how it finished as a book. I felt like for a book with a character that so mysterious and standoffish, the last one or two chapters were too informative of what will happen in the future, it wrapped up too nicely.
Jack reacher is definitely a very interesting character and he is not just muscles. He also has a heart and we see him fall in love with Roscoe. We also see him breathing for the people who died.
Roscoe is too damsel in distress for me. I mean she is a police officer and she just never really does anything of importance in the book so I really appreciate that the TV show made her into a woman who can take care of herself.
Finlay is all right in the book but I preferred him in the show. He had a very interesting relationship with reacher.
I find Lee Childs writing style hard to get into. Too much wordy and dense description and dialogues that often end up in monologues. Too information-dumping. He is a genius in creating the plot but the writing style isn’t working for me… I’ll try one of his books that is written in a third person perspective, maybe it’ll worked better for me.
The plot is extremely complex and quite intelligent. A lot of explaining an exposition and description needed in order to flesh out the plot. I have a problem with description in general, I find heavy wordy description to be distracting and boring. So at times I did felt bored but it started out really good, it was fast paced and intriguing and everything was so mysterious and I really wanted to find out more. But half way through the plot it started to get a bit dense and wordy. I didn’t really like the ending. The conclusion of the whole operation was really good but I didn’t like how it finished as a book. I felt like for a book with a character that so mysterious and standoffish, the last one or two chapters were too informative of what will happen in the future, it wrapped up too nicely.
Jack reacher is definitely a very interesting character and he is not just muscles. He also has a heart and we see him fall in love with Roscoe. We also see him breathing for the people who died.
Roscoe is too damsel in distress for me. I mean she is a police officer and she just never really does anything of importance in the book so I really appreciate that the TV show made her into a woman who can take care of herself.
Finlay is all right in the book but I preferred him in the show. He had a very interesting relationship with reacher.
I find Lee Childs writing style hard to get into. Too much wordy and dense description and dialogues that often end up in monologues. Too information-dumping. He is a genius in creating the plot but the writing style isn’t working for me… I’ll try one of his books that is written in a third person perspective, maybe it’ll worked better for me.