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reachersaid_ 's review for:
Transfer of Power
by Vince Flynn
dark
tense
medium-paced
At this point I have given more than a fair chance to the Mitch Rapp series. I tried the first two books, found the first promising and the second I really despised. Inspite of that result, I soldiered into book three based on the promise that first two were prequels and the original entries were much better. Having finished Transfer of Power, I unfortunately I have to admit this series is not up to the standards I require from the genre.
Like my earlier experience with the series, things started out absorbingly, terrorists taking over the White House and Rapp on a mission to infiltrate and save the day, and all of that in the midst of politically fallout from the incident.
At the half way point I was already contemplating a potential five star read. The action was decent and the players seemed competently written. Out of nowhere though, the quality of the story seemed to plummet. The description of the main setting became almost impossible to follow, it was like a painter randomly tossed his colours on a canvas and expected a masterpiece to follow instead of an incomprehensible mess.
It was a book that did not deserve to be as long as it was, there was too much talking and planning with nothing really special going on in the pages, it began to feel like I was under siege and the book was trying to starve me of the chance of reading something better.
Rapp himself failed to convince me as a main character, he had no charisma and displayed no real intelligence.
After so much build up and promise, the resolution was safe, convenient and absolutely unremarkable.
Like my earlier experience with the series, things started out absorbingly, terrorists taking over the White House and Rapp on a mission to infiltrate and save the day, and all of that in the midst of politically fallout from the incident.
At the half way point I was already contemplating a potential five star read. The action was decent and the players seemed competently written. Out of nowhere though, the quality of the story seemed to plummet. The description of the main setting became almost impossible to follow, it was like a painter randomly tossed his colours on a canvas and expected a masterpiece to follow instead of an incomprehensible mess.
It was a book that did not deserve to be as long as it was, there was too much talking and planning with nothing really special going on in the pages, it began to feel like I was under siege and the book was trying to starve me of the chance of reading something better.
Rapp himself failed to convince me as a main character, he had no charisma and displayed no real intelligence.
After so much build up and promise, the resolution was safe, convenient and absolutely unremarkable.