Assumed Identity
2 journalers for this copy...
Going out in a book box - another one of those hubby didn't want to read.
The final book I've chosen from Kayters' Mystery/Thriller Book Box. There were just so many good books in there that I had a really hard time choosing!
This will go in my TBR pile, then be released once I've read it. Kayters, thank you for organizing this book box! (It's my first, and I was so excited to receive it.)
This will go in my TBR pile, then be released once I've read it. Kayters, thank you for organizing this book box! (It's my first, and I was so excited to receive it.)
Wow, this collected a lot of dust waiting for me to read it! I'm sorry for holding on to it for so long.
I haven't been reading a lot of spy thrillers lately, and perhaps my tastes have veered away from them. I enjoyed this book, but I found it easy to set aside. It didn't grip me the way this genre used to.
The characters were interesting enough, but I never really identified with the protagonist. Maybe that was because he didn't have a stable identity, always switching from one personna to another. I never felt myself really cheering for him, but rather watching as something of a disinterested bystander.
The plot had a lot of twists and turns, some predictable but most took me by surprise. The story never felt dormant; it always had forward momentum. The ending required some significant suspension of disbelief (Mayans to the rescue with bows and arrows against machine guns? Doing brain surgery with a primative drill and no electricity never mind no sterile conditions?) and I never really felt like there was any resolution with the plotline surrounding Juana. That felt like a big black hole to me, and left me with some overall dissatisfaction with the story. I wanted to know why she didn't show up in New Orleans, and wanted to see the intereaction between her and Buchannan when they finally met. Those seemed pretty key things to me, and they were left hanging.
All in all, it was an OK book, but nothing I'd race out to recommend and certainly not something that's going to make me look for more by this author. I'll be releasing this soon, for the MTBR challenge and the Keep Them Moving challenge.
Thanks for sharing it kayters! Sorry to have held up it's journey for so long.
I haven't been reading a lot of spy thrillers lately, and perhaps my tastes have veered away from them. I enjoyed this book, but I found it easy to set aside. It didn't grip me the way this genre used to.
The characters were interesting enough, but I never really identified with the protagonist. Maybe that was because he didn't have a stable identity, always switching from one personna to another. I never felt myself really cheering for him, but rather watching as something of a disinterested bystander.
The plot had a lot of twists and turns, some predictable but most took me by surprise. The story never felt dormant; it always had forward momentum. The ending required some significant suspension of disbelief (Mayans to the rescue with bows and arrows against machine guns? Doing brain surgery with a primative drill and no electricity never mind no sterile conditions?) and I never really felt like there was any resolution with the plotline surrounding Juana. That felt like a big black hole to me, and left me with some overall dissatisfaction with the story. I wanted to know why she didn't show up in New Orleans, and wanted to see the intereaction between her and Buchannan when they finally met. Those seemed pretty key things to me, and they were left hanging.
All in all, it was an OK book, but nothing I'd race out to recommend and certainly not something that's going to make me look for more by this author. I'll be releasing this soon, for the MTBR challenge and the Keep Them Moving challenge.
Thanks for sharing it kayters! Sorry to have held up it's journey for so long.
Journal Entry 4 by Sherria at Fitness Edge, 20 Saugatuck Ave. in Westport, Connecticut USA on Monday, February 6, 2006