Inquisitivesage

Author running out of ideas.

Revisado: 04-05-24

To much small talk that didn’t build better characterization or move plot forward. Routine fights too long. No clever dialogue. What a bore.

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Pleasant not compelling read

Revisado: 10-18-23

Not much smarts or deep thinking demonstrated by protagonists. Growing of age story without much focus on the kids.

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Not Unless You’re a JFK Conspiracy Nut

Revisado: 01-30-20

This is an excruciatingly long theory of the conspiracy behind JFK’s murder as derived from Swagger’s (Hunter’s) unusual knowledge of guns. If you’re into this, the book may rate 5 Stars. It’s also a fine characterization of a psychotic personality.

The above notwithstanding, I found it unbearably boring, couldn’t relate to the characters, and found Swagger’s logic and performance superhuman even compared to the first two books in the series. Too much of a good thing.

The narrator was generally excellent, but too often I didn’t know which character was speaking, hence the loss of one star. This may be unfair since my mind was wandering.

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Same Old Same Old

Revisado: 01-23-19

Love the series and Gilbert Jackson, however, by the time of This ninth book, the characters, the challenges, the fights, the villains, the politics,and the powers are all the same. No development. Boring.

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12 Hour Lead-In to 20 Minute Presidential Monologue

Revisado: 06-28-18

The entire book, with a very thin cliche filled plot, written at a young adult audience level, was simply a preface to a feel good speech articulating our country’s current social problems and urging us all to work together to solve them. The brilliant, sensitive protagonist, who in this audible presentation with a voice sounding oddly like a past President, is wiser than all who surround him and virtually single handedly saves the country from cyber annihilation.

On the positive side, the issues raised in the President’s speech are a quite good synopsis of present day ills and worth a listen. Just jump to the second to last chapter and save yourself a dozen hours of dull grade B “ action thriller”.

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He woke up and it was all a dream

Revisado: 03-22-18

This should have been subtitled “Part1 of 2” or maybe “Sam Callahan, Mini Series”.

Do not buy this book unless you have already bought Book 3.

Since I have not yet bought Book 3, cannot tell whether it will be necessary to have Book 4 as well.

Needless to say, poor wrap-up of all loose ends and just a prequel, at best, to the next in series.

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WORST DIALOGUE EVER WRITTEN BY THOMAS PERRY

Revisado: 02-10-18

Thomas Perry is a very good author with a half dozen or more books I would recommend highly. This book is s joke. It appears as though written by a teenager. The protagonists, for lack of a better term, are a pair of married private detectives and a pair of married assassins. The dialogue and thoughts between each of the pairs, which represents possibly half the book, is at the level of couples in puppy love, even though they’ve both been married for decades.

Half the book is spent searching for the murderer of character dead a year before the book begins. Then all of a sudden, for no good reason, the little bit of suspense that has been built is completely blown up with a revelation by the murderer as to the how and why. This then leads to any entirely divergent theme and effectively a new plot. The assassins kill people right and left, but only bad guys, although they are constantly reminding you of all the contracts(albeit without any details) they’ve undertaken over their career.

The plot moves along at a snail’s pace with little character development or color for the locale.

The narrator is barely able to help distinguish between male and female characters and the two couples sound like each other so you can only tell whose talking as a result of the context .

With my comments above, you might ask why I didn’t just drop the book. I got through 3/4’s of it using it to put me to sleep. Once awake though, I finally threw in the towel with about 10% left so I can’t reveal the ending or if the loose ends were ever tied up in a nice knot.

Don’t waste your time on this one.

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Muddled

Revisado: 09-17-17

What can you say about a book with no character development and no plot? Main character gains unlimited power, but can hardly ever use it. Blunders through challenges with no rational planning. Always fails to more clever opponents, but manages to survive because his enemies, figuratively speaking, lay down and die to to accommodate him. Endless digressions and descriptions for no reason other than filler. The book is one constant downer with no victories and intelligence demonstrated by protagonist. The secondary characters are all shallow with no personality. Author plagiarizes bits and pieces from other urban fantasies and adds few,if any, twists of his own. The only saving grace is the narrator, Joel Richards, whose sonorous tenor and reasonably versatile variety of voices and accents makes a thoroughly boring narrative enjoyable to listen.

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Worst audio of over 100 books "read".

Revisado: 04-13-17

Introductory volume was 5 star. What happened in sexual? The audio sounded like coming from inside a box. Echo, booming, annoying. Narration stilted. Character names were obtuse (e.g. Siegfried, Sendi, Diantha, Gerta), except for talking dogs--Charlie and Sophia. Muddled mythologies from various countries. No real character development. Plot vapid. Fixation on fairy's breasts. Confession--I quit after chapter 12. Couldn't take it any more.

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Listening to the grass grow

Revisado: 02-14-16

Clancy fills the book with his idealogical political philosophy in an overly simplistic juvenile style continuing to browbeat the reader with it.

The antagonists, jihadists, are stereotyped nut jobs kicking every little dog that gets in their way.

More to the point, every character in the book and every locale is described in such detail that the forest is lost from the trees, the bark of which are brown, knurled, with lichen growing on one side, roots sticking out of the ground, one of which, the second longest, of the third largest tree would have made a great staff, that could have been wielded by a crusader wearing worn clothes from his many weeks on campaign with inadequate food that left him yearning for the likes of a Chipotle, except he might have died from botulism rather than the cold iron of his enemies sword that would have been made by a master sword maker who likely had not eaten enough that morning because the sword was not well balanced and showed the mark of Jamal, who was renowned for the poor quality of his workmanship, which is why his wife Fatima, did not have enough money to support her dying mother Alaya, making her just one more of the angry masses that wanted to see the infidels die.

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