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A review by books17
Area 7 by Matthew Reilly
3.0
Continuing my revisit of my old favourites, I liked AREA 7 a bit more than I did my re-listen of ICE STATION. "Mr President, there's a transmitter on your heart, and if your heart stops, America DIES" is possibly the campiest thing I've ever heard.
I think this was the first Reilly novel I ever read, way back whenever it was - probably high school. I can see why teenage-me enjoyed it so much, but like ICE STATION I struggled with it as a 30 year old. Really there's nothing wrong with it, and it does the job it was designed to do, I think I've just outgrown things that have "EXPLOSIVE" as descriptors.
Onto SCARECROW next - I remember almost nothing about it, so I'm actually interested to see how it pans out.
I think this was the first Reilly novel I ever read, way back whenever it was - probably high school. I can see why teenage-me enjoyed it so much, but like ICE STATION I struggled with it as a 30 year old. Really there's nothing wrong with it, and it does the job it was designed to do, I think I've just outgrown things that have "EXPLOSIVE" as descriptors.
Onto SCARECROW next - I remember almost nothing about it, so I'm actually interested to see how it pans out.