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dm_aus 's review for:
The Year of the Locust
by Terry Hayes
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Terry Hayes'novel started out as a typical American-hero spy novel. You know the type...the protagonist is skilled in multiple languages, has unusual endurance and strength, is super smart etc...ie excessively unrealistic.
As was Kalinsky, the prime terrorist.
So, I was expecting more beyond-reality events and adventures. I'm happy to go along with bending light and time travel but 'The Year of the Locust' went just a bit over the top (understatement) with the invisible submarine about 2/3 into the book.
Then, totally over the top with Part 4 where we have a virus invasion, strange human-something creatures and then a post-apocalyptic NYC arrived at by mere co-incidence. I have to admit that I lost interest pretty quickly as the novel became more and more ridiculous even down to references to, of course, the 4th of July.
Such a disappointment after 'I am Pilgrim' a decade ago. Locust is a book that reads more like an AI experiment than the work of Terry Hayes.
Terry Hayes'novel started out as a typical American-hero spy novel. You know the type...the protagonist is skilled in multiple languages, has unusual endurance and strength, is super smart etc...ie excessively unrealistic.
As was Kalinsky, the prime terrorist.
So, I was expecting more beyond-reality events and adventures. I'm happy to go along with bending light and time travel but 'The Year of the Locust' went just a bit over the top (understatement) with the invisible submarine about 2/3 into the book.
Then, totally over the top with Part 4 where we have a virus invasion, strange human-something creatures and then a post-apocalyptic NYC arrived at by mere co-incidence. I have to admit that I lost interest pretty quickly as the novel became more and more ridiculous even down to references to, of course, the 4th of July.
Such a disappointment after 'I am Pilgrim' a decade ago. Locust is a book that reads more like an AI experiment than the work of Terry Hayes.