Bridget Mote

A new series with potential

Revisado: 08-29-24

There’s lots to celebrate with this Harrington series. He’s a compelling character, for sure. He’s got a unique set of skills.

My only rub is there’s a lack of context in the fighting scenes. Cops arriving on scene amongst heavy gunfire, they see their friends taking rounds to the head, they exit their vehicles, yet the first time the villain throws rounds their way they get hit…in vital areas. I’d like to think they’d at least have some level of cover in that context.

Or a hand to hand situation, you got a guy with reach advantage who’s winning in stand up with muy thai strikes against a grappler, the grappler wouldn’t finally get inside that reach, get hands on, then throw the dude to the ground. That just means he’s got to stand up and take punishment again and find a way back inside. Once the grappler gets a hold of a limb, a sleeve, he ain’t ever letting go unless forced to somehow.

I know I’m splitting hairs here. It’s a solid book, and I’ll keep reading whatever comes next. But these little nuances are huge in the believability of the it all.

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Complex, but brilliant

Revisado: 08-12-24

Best spy novel of all time. Absolutely incredible, but a warning. You have to be fully engaged while listening to this book or you will be lost.

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Big fan of the series

Revisado: 06-26-24

Jack Carr gets it. He owns the nuance within this genre that gives his characters credibility. And he has created a phenomenal portfolio of characters that are all worthy of respect and admiration. He’s as good as anybody in crafting his work to get the reader invested in the characters but also in the relationship amongst th characters. Reese and Rafe, Reese as part of the Hastings clan, it’s all top notch . And he’s right there with others like Barry Eisler, Andrews and Wilson(Tier One series). I love his work.

But two things on this book: 1) the plots are getting to be a bit extra. 2. Reese’s insistence on self-destruction out of guilt is starting to rub with me. I get it. But he’s venturing into self pity w Reese in his internal dialogue.

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It’s not easy to make Rapp sound like a whiner

Revisado: 11-30-23

But this narrator sure does. This guy is incapable of portraying grit/toughness…you know…the stuff that Mitch Rapp is made of. It’s painful

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Epic

Revisado: 02-28-23

The continuing saga of JD and the rest of TF Ember is hands down the best and most authentic of the entire genre. The war w Arkady is compelling and the authors let us in on the strategy that both Jarvis and Arkady employ in what I believe to be the ultimate match between the ultimate chess masters. It would’ve been easy to overdo this latest story and make it it just a bit extra, if you know what I mean. But This last installment might be the best one yet! I hope this story continues to evolve for many years to come

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Hokey, Obvious, completely implausible

Revisado: 06-10-22

I can’t tell if it’s the guy narrating…but it’s just so cheesy and obvious. All the nuance and subtlety and humility we get from John Rain, Scott Harvath, Dox, Dempse…this comes off as the opposite. The character comes across as obvious and cheesy. Abbey comes across sp bad cuz the narrator just can’t carry her.

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Really good narrator

Revisado: 04-26-22

I’ve listened to 60 books in this niche - Gray Man, John Rain, Scott Harvath, John Dempsey, Reacher, Orphan X, James Reese, to name a few. Aside from Ray Porter who narrates the Reese series and Tier One series, this narrator is the absolute best. 1) he comes off as how I interpret Dewey Andreas to be/sound. It’s authentic, it’s believable.

Ben Coes is fantastic, always is. This book is exceptional though, and Peter Hermann is fast becoming my favorite. I loved this book. Plain and simple.

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Luke Stone has zero shot if he is what the narrator makes him out to be

Revisado: 03-15-22

This narrator makes every hardened operator come across as whiny little Chauncey boys. Which distracts and makes the characters unbelievable, the story implausible.

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Is Harvath supposed to be 70years old?

Revisado: 09-22-21

The narrator has all these hard nosed, elite operators coming through as geriatrics. It’s distracting. And someone please help him w the phonetics of “short lived”.

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Narrator will make it or break it

Revisado: 09-08-21

The first book in the series was a struggle from the start - I chalked it up to my own bias having just listened to every Eisler book in the John Rain series. Since then I’ve listened to everything I can find…Scott Horvath series, all of the Gray Man books and Orphan X books. I’ve caught a few of Dalton Fury’s as well. Now I’ve just listened to book 2 in the DJ Slaughter series, and I still struggle with it. The narrator is a big part of it in that he seems incapable of portraying the feel, confidence, supreme belief that makes every other hero operator believable. This narrator isn’t believable. My take is that you can’t have a dude with no feel play the part of a dude with ultimate feel. He makes DJ’s inner dialogue painfully cheesy and obvious. The story is good, it’s solid. But the dialogue between characters is pretty surface level, obvious.

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