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A review by sarah_amy
The Minders by John Marrs
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I found The Minders a little harder to follow than The One or The Passengers, and it just didn't seem to hold me in as much suspense. However, me mixing up characters may have had something to do with listening to the audiobook and only having 2 narrators for all 5 characters, (one for the 3 females and one for the 2 males) as opposed for a separate narrator for each character. Or it could be that I'm on heavy pain meds for my sore back and can't pay attention...who knows?
ANYWAY the premise of this one was interesting. On one hand the concept of implanting the government's biggest secrets and cover-ups into a handful of human brains seemed a little ridiculous as I feel anyone would be far too easy to manipulate or compromise once they were found to be a person to hold all that knowledge...
On the other, it certainly gave way to a lot of pondering in regards to the number of conspiracies and cover-ups that ARE probably out there that most of us aren't privy to, that would change the state of the world in a big way were the information released...
Might listen to again at some stage to try to keep up with who is who, but not in a rush. The need for anonymity with the characters made it difficult to connect with them, but was intrigued enough by the premise to want to finish & see whether the government or the hackers would prevail.
ANYWAY the premise of this one was interesting. On one hand the concept of implanting the government's biggest secrets and cover-ups into a handful of human brains seemed a little ridiculous as I feel anyone would be far too easy to manipulate or compromise once they were found to be a person to hold all that knowledge...
On the other, it certainly gave way to a lot of pondering in regards to the number of conspiracies and cover-ups that ARE probably out there that most of us aren't privy to, that would change the state of the world in a big way were the information released...
Might listen to again at some stage to try to keep up with who is who, but not in a rush. The need for anonymity with the characters made it difficult to connect with them, but was intrigued enough by the premise to want to finish & see whether the government or the hackers would prevail.