Lindsey M Holland

Great action, cringe dialogue

Revisado: 10-04-24

Slow start but picked up to an action packed story. I wanted to know what happened next and couldn’t put it down once magic came into it. The thing that kept making me groan reading this was the character to character dialogue, something about it made me cringe.

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Self-congratulatory nobody writes boring book

Revisado: 02-28-19

The Author, Naveed Jamali is in no way a hero spy master. He needs you to like him, and he needs to be important. His desperate need for both of these things lead him to a very low stakes set of events, which he then writes an entire self-congratulatory book about.

He was rejected from Naval Intelligence, so instead of finding another real job, he starts hobby-spying on Russian diplomats who happen to shop at his parents’ bookstore. Mr. Jamali is not a hero civilian called to a higher duty who makes personal sacrifice for his government. Instead, Mr. Jamali comes across as an attention-seeking fan-boy who can’t handle the rejection that the US government doesn’t want his services, so he forces himself on the FBI by spying on his neighbors anyway. The sections of the book where the FBI is trying to brush him off, as he is clearly a nobody fan-boy, are super cringe-y.

The way the book is written you would think he was at great personal risk for a higher calling, but instead he was dealing publicly accessible, unclassified material in chain restaurants with little to no personal risk. In the end, the scandal he uncovered was really just the embarrassment that the Russians had been associated with someone as unimportant as him. His actions have no real value to the US. I feel sorry for the Russians by the end because this guy is way more of a waste of everyone’s time than any sort of intelligence gatherer. The only thing worse than a snoozy spy thriller, is when the main character turns out to be a self-aggrandizing nobody pretending to be a hero.

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Too blue sky

Revisado: 11-10-16

Too blue sky to be of much value for someone who wants to learn about the short term future of brain science.

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