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As usual, Lee Child presents an excellent story full of twists and turns. I have a hard time putting his books down. Great read.
After not liking the last Jack Reacher book, I was worried it might start a pattern of bad books. I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this book and glad it took place during Reacher’s time in the service instead of all the previous books which take place after he left the Army.
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
What a mind numbing, boring book.
The first past exploratory Reacher book. We are back to when he is in the army, though we never get any reason why we are getting a book set in the past. All other characters except for Reacher feel kind off week. The plot is so boring (this might be a me thing since political thrillers very rarely pull me in) and I just couldn't really care about this book.
One positive is, we get to hang out with Reacher's brother and his mom, which was the only highlight for me in this book.
Sigh, can't love all of them, but boy did this one not work for me.
The first past exploratory Reacher book. We are back to when he is in the army, though we never get any reason why we are getting a book set in the past. All other characters except for Reacher feel kind off week. The plot is so boring (this might be a me thing since political thrillers very rarely pull me in) and I just couldn't really care about this book.
One positive is, we get to hang out with Reacher's brother and his mom, which was the only highlight for me in this book.
Sigh, can't love all of them, but boy did this one not work for me.
A little different than Child's usual Reacher plot as this one flashes back to his military career. Nice to get a little more background on our hero through his brother and his mother. On par with Persuader and 100x better than Echo Burning (my least favorite Reacher book thus far). Do wish Leon played a little bit bigger part.
I've been working my way through this series and have loved them all, yet going back to New Year's Day 1990 and experiencing a young Jack was amazing.
I think I would have enjoyed it more in the prequel (chronological year the story takes place in) than reading it in the publishing order. Oh well, still a great read and still a fan of the series.
Enthralled for the entire duration of the book. It was good to get some of Reacher's backstory filled out.
I do enjoy the Jack Reacher series. This one takes a step back in time and chronologically takes place before the previous six books. It's January 1, 1990. Reacher is still in the army and he's got a dead general and soon afterwards, several other bodies on his hands.
This is full of conspiracy and unsurprisingly Reacher taking his own unsanctioned path to the truth. There are several parts of the mystery that are sure to intersect but at the beginning it's unclear quite how. This one was much more a police procedural (well, as procedural as Reacher is willing to be anyway) than some of the other books in the series what were more action thriller type books.
I enjoyed the look back to Reacher's army days and the setting at the end of the Cold War was interesting. I liked Lieutenant Summer - she was a good assistant/accomplice for Reacher.
The secondary plot involving Reacher's brother and mother filled in quite a bit of background about both him and his family.
This would actually work well as a starting point book for those new to the series.
This is full of conspiracy and unsurprisingly Reacher taking his own unsanctioned path to the truth. There are several parts of the mystery that are sure to intersect but at the beginning it's unclear quite how. This one was much more a police procedural (well, as procedural as Reacher is willing to be anyway) than some of the other books in the series what were more action thriller type books.
I enjoyed the look back to Reacher's army days and the setting at the end of the Cold War was interesting. I liked Lieutenant Summer - she was a good assistant/accomplice for Reacher.
The secondary plot involving Reacher's brother and mother filled in quite a bit of background about both him and his family.
This would actually work well as a starting point book for those new to the series.
This is the first book I've read by this author, or of the series. I thought the story was good it kept me interested, I just didn't understand why did what he did to willard.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Perhaps because the military setting is out of the ordinary who-done-it.