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A review by cgcang
The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
4.0
Well... This book has some of the usual Reacher charm, at least.
As I've said before, I humbly consider Make Me the last of the good Reacher novels. Starting with Night School, Lee Child's been making his way into retirement. Blue Moon was mediocre, after Andrew Grant stepped in, The Sentinel was mediocre but still nice, and Better Off Dead was... Well, not a very good book. So I had mixed feelings about finally reading The Midnight Line. Now that I have, I can safely say that it's still a good enough Reacher book with the classic Reacher feeling, especially in the first half. In the second half the book loses some serious steam and wanders into some weird places, but still ends up okay in my opinion.
Now I only have 2 Reacher books that I have left untouched: The Affair and A Wanted Man. I'm thinking of reading them back-to-back because binging books is always a good idea. And honestly I don't know how to feel about finally being about to run out of never-before-read Reacher books. Sure, there are still some that I have read and mostly forgotten about, like Personal. I have little to no recollection of what that book was even about. Or Without Fail. My memory about that is pretty vague, too. And I have never read One Shot, but watched the movie multiple times, so again, mixed feelings.
Yeah, so, The Midnight Line was interesting and not bad, you can safely check it out. It's not a good place to start reading Reacher books, though. As I said, it wanders into some weird places.
As I've said before, I humbly consider Make Me the last of the good Reacher novels. Starting with Night School, Lee Child's been making his way into retirement. Blue Moon was mediocre, after Andrew Grant stepped in, The Sentinel was mediocre but still nice, and Better Off Dead was... Well, not a very good book. So I had mixed feelings about finally reading The Midnight Line. Now that I have, I can safely say that it's still a good enough Reacher book with the classic Reacher feeling, especially in the first half. In the second half the book loses some serious steam and wanders into some weird places, but still ends up okay in my opinion.
Now I only have 2 Reacher books that I have left untouched: The Affair and A Wanted Man. I'm thinking of reading them back-to-back because binging books is always a good idea. And honestly I don't know how to feel about finally being about to run out of never-before-read Reacher books. Sure, there are still some that I have read and mostly forgotten about, like Personal. I have little to no recollection of what that book was even about. Or Without Fail. My memory about that is pretty vague, too. And I have never read One Shot, but watched the movie multiple times, so again, mixed feelings.
Yeah, so, The Midnight Line was interesting and not bad, you can safely check it out. It's not a good place to start reading Reacher books, though. As I said, it wanders into some weird places.